Create or update a repository secret
Creates or updates a repository secret with an encrypted value. Encrypt your secret using
LibSodium. You must authenticate using an access
token with the repo
scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the secrets
repository permission to use
this endpoint.
Example encrypting a secret using Node.js
Encrypt your secret using the tweetsodium library.
const sodium = require('tweetsodium');
const key = "base64-encoded-public-key";
const value = "plain-text-secret";
// Convert the message and key to Uint8Array's (Buffer implements that interface)
const messageBytes = Buffer.from(value);
const keyBytes = Buffer.from(key, 'base64');
// Encrypt using LibSodium.
const encryptedBytes = sodium.seal(messageBytes, keyBytes);
// Base64 the encrypted secret
const encrypted = Buffer.from(encryptedBytes).toString('base64');
console.log(encrypted);
Example encrypting a secret using Python
Encrypt your secret using pynacl with Python 3.
from base64 import b64encode
from nacl import encoding, public
def encrypt(public_key: str, secret_value: str) -> str:
"""Encrypt a Unicode string using the public key."""
public_key = public.PublicKey(public_key.encode("utf-8"), encoding.Base64Encoder())
sealed_box = public.SealedBox(public_key)
encrypted = sealed_box.encrypt(secret_value.encode("utf-8"))
return b64encode(encrypted).decode("utf-8")
Example encrypting a secret using C#
Encrypt your secret using the Sodium.Core package.
var secretValue = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("mySecret");
var publicKey = Convert.FromBase64String("2Sg8iYjAxxmI2LvUXpJjkYrMxURPc8r+dB7TJyvvcCU=");
var sealedPublicKeyBox = Sodium.SealedPublicKeyBox.Create(secretValue, publicKey);
Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToBase64String(sealedPublicKeyBox));
Example encrypting a secret using Ruby
Encrypt your secret using the rbnacl gem.
require "rbnacl"
require "base64"
key = Base64.decode64("+ZYvJDZMHUfBkJdyq5Zm9SKqeuBQ4sj+6sfjlH4CgG0=")
public_key = RbNaCl::PublicKey.new(key)
box = RbNaCl::Boxes::Sealed.from_public_key(public_key)
encrypted_secret = box.encrypt("my_secret")
# Print the base64 encoded secret
puts Base64.strict_encode64(encrypted_secret)
Parameters
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