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Investigate non-plaintext token cache

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r

Research direction

Review the token-cache implementation and the OAuth authentication paths referenced in the issue. Determine how tokens are currently persisted, evaluate the secret-store approach advised by the Storage team, and document a concrete implementation plan and completion criteria.

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Description

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according to the Storage Team’s security experts, it’s best to store the tokens in a secret store rather than exposing them as plaintext. We also had the same conversation with them when we were implementing OAuth authentication, and they advised us to not follow the CLI’s example, as it’s always possible that a malicious agent is running when the user is logged in.

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R
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48
Forks
23
Avg merge
4h 2m
Merged PRs (30d)
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