Comment by Ciantic
5 hours ago
I think every API key system should have endpoint "invalidate_api_key" this way whitehat hackers or the party who stored them could invalidate all keys in the case they leak. Now it is race against the time, and everybody got email, and everyone must act themselves.
It actually is a thing, although indirectly in a hacky way! If you push keys from GitHub secret scanning partners to a public repo or a gist, they get sent to the partner who (usually) instantly revoke them. So if you want to help someone, just make a public gist with the key and delete it like 15 seconds later, it'll be enough.
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/secret-se... has a table with the active partners
Only responsible thing in this case would have been for OpenCode people to invalidate all keys. But I guess it is not that straightforward if Anthropic/OpenAI etc don't have endpoint for it.
There's no self-serve endpoint, but OpenCode could send the inference providers the leaked keys and ask for them to be revoked, which is a thing the inference providers can do. It's possible that this'll happen, apparently remediation is still in progress.
That just turns a credential leak into a denial of service - one that can be triggered from anywhere.
In this case you'd probably prefer your key to be disabled rather than spending $$$ on tokens for everyone else
Think that through - the person who stole the key has the decision to use it or revoke it through this hypothetical system.
If they are acting maliciously, they will take the choice that most hurts you and/or benefits them.
If the key is useless to them and revoking it hurts you, then they would do that.
If the key wasn’t useless to them, then… they would just use it and not revoke it?
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Not any more than any other public endpoint service exposes. This revocation endpoint can be protected by auth too. Use API key that you're revoking in auth.
How does that make any sense?
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Yes. Is this a bad thing?
Of course it is? A key for some weather API getting leaked isn’t the end of the world, but having it revoked and breaking your weather app is.