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Lyntale Onsdag 2. september

How to Keep Secrets from your Agent

Room 6

Engelsk 20 min security ai agents encryption secrets

Nikolai Norman Andersen

Nikolai is CTO at Variant Oslo and gives practical technical talks about secure, privacy-aware software delivery. He is especially interested in infrastructure, developer experience and handling secrets.

Agents are taking your job, but can you at least keep your secrets? The last thing we want is agents and LLMs reading our secret values into context and sending them to someone else's computer. In this talk I will get into how to safely store secrets in git using encryption and how we can let our agents use these secrets without seeing them.

I will introduce you to SOPS, key management and practical patterns like stdin-based handoff that let agents use secrets without dragging the plaintext into prompts, logs, chats or onto remote servers. There are some caveats, make sure you come and learn what they are!

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