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@inickles inickles commented May 5, 2025

This wraps uses of user passwords in secrecy types that:

  1. make an effort to not accidentally expose passwords (via Debug, serialization, etc.)
  2. zeroize memory when a password is no longer used.

The Nexus external API parameter type for passwords kept a local String copy of user passwords in addition to the internal password type, the former of which was used only for testing purposes. This removes that, ensuring that passwords in Nexus are always wrapped in secrecy, but it has the unfortunate requirement now that test code needs to use slightly different parameter types than those exposed by the external Nexus API. I've tried to make it clear where that happens in code and why in the code comments, but happy to take suggestions on different approaches.

inickles added 2 commits May 5, 2025 10:22
them in the Nexus external API type that was only used for testing
purposes.
@inickles inickles requested review from davepacheco and jmpesp May 5, 2025 21:55
@inickles inickles merged commit bc07eb0 into main May 14, 2025
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@inickles inickles deleted the inickles/passwords branch May 14, 2025 18:13
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