Encrypt Env Vars Before Pasting into PaaS Dashboards, Dev Advises
DavidWells · x · 2026-11-11
Developer David Wells shares a counterintuitive security practice: encrypt your env vars before pasting them into your PaaS dashboard, and decrypt at runtime.
- Hardcode your own decryption key in source; the platform only ever holds ciphertext.
- Payoff: if your host's control plane leaks, attackers get ciphertext, not plaintext secrets.
- The point is moving the trust boundary from the platform back to yourself.
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