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1. emschw+Hb[view] [source] 2026-02-03 18:16:54
>>johnsp+(OP)
> In Deno Sandbox, secrets never enter the environment. Code sees only a placeholder

> The real key materializes only when the sandbox makes an outbound request to an approved host. If prompt-injected code tries to exfiltrate that placeholder to evil.com? Useless.

That seems clever.

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2. simonw+8e[view] [source] 2026-02-03 18:25:30
>>emschw+Hb
Yeah, this is a really neat idea: https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox#secrets-that-...

  await using sandbox = await Sandbox.create({
    secrets: {
      OPENAI_API_KEY: {
        hosts: ["api.openai.com"],
        value: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
      },
    },
  });
  
  await sandbox.sh`echo $OPENAI_API_KEY`;
  // DENO_SECRET_PLACEHOLDER_b14043a2f578cba75ebe04791e8e2c7d4002fd0c1f825e19...
It doesn't prevent bad code from USING those secrets to do nasty things, but it does at least make it impossible for them to steal the secret permanently.

Kind of like how XSS attacks can't read httpOnly cookies but they can generally still cause fetch() requests that can take actions using those cookies.

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