Put age identity keys into locked buffers through one function (closes #38)
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secret.IdentityToLockedBuffer replaces the eight places that converted
an age identity's String() to bytes for a locked buffer and left the
string, which holds the private key, in ordinary memory. It moves the
string's own bytes into the buffer, which overwrites them. The copies
age makes while encoding the key remain; the function's comment says
so. TODO.md drops these places from the 1.0 memory-security entry,
along with its stale version.go reference.

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@@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ Bring the repo into policy compliance in one commit:
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-04: An age identity's private key goes into a locked buffer
through `secret.IdentityToLockedBuffer` everywhere
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/38): the vault's long-term key
when a passphrase, PGP, keychain or Secure Enclave unlocker is created,
the new unlocker's own key, a new secret version's key, and the key
`secret encrypt` generates. Before, each place converted the string age
returns to bytes and left the string in ordinary memory. The function
moves the string's own bytes into the buffer, which overwrites them; the
copies age makes while writing the string remain, as its comment says.
The 1.0 memory-security entry below no longer lists these places,
`internal/cli/crypto.go` among them, nor `version.go:155`, which was
`internal/secret/version.go`, not `internal/cli/version.go`.
- 2026-10-04: `script/lint-darwin` (`make lint-darwin`) runs `go vet` and
`golangci-lint` in docker on the code as a macOS build compiles it
(`GOOS=darwin`), with cgo off
@@ -331,11 +343,11 @@ Bring the repo into policy compliance in one commit:
- Command injection: GPG key IDs passed unescaped to exec.Command
(pgpunlocker.go:323-327); data.String() passed unescaped to the
security command (keychainunlocker.go:472-476).
- Memory security: age identity .String() creates unprotected
copies (keychainunlocker.go:356, pgpunlocker.go:256,
version.go:155); age secret key held in a plain string in
cli/crypto.go:86,91,113; private keys exposed via buffer.Bytes()
to GPGEncryptFunc and EncryptWithPassphrase.
- Memory security: age writes an identity's private key out as a
string in ordinary memory, and the copies it makes on the way stay
there (`secret.IdentityToLockedBuffer` overwrites only the string
itself); private keys exposed via buffer.Bytes() to GPGEncryptFunc
and EncryptWithPassphrase.
- Input validation: no maximum secret size (DoS).
- Timing attacks: bytes.Equal passphrase compare (cli/init.go:
209-216); non-constant-time public key compare (vault.go:95-100).