Detecting security keys

You should never store security keys in a version-control system. Cloud Source Repositories can help you prevent users from storing security keys in a Google Cloud repository. Cloud Source Repositories can check for the following types of security keys:

• Google Cloud service account credentials (JSON format)
• PEM-encoded private keys (including RSA, DSA, and PGP)

This checking feature is available for all repositories at no charge.

How the security-key checking feature works

When a user executes a git push command, the checking feature looks for data that might be a security key. If a match is found, the feature blocks the git push and notifies users what was found and where. For example:

The push has been rejected because we detect that it contains a private key.
Please check the following commands and confirm that it's intentional:

git show [COMMIT]

You can use `git rev-list --objects --all` to find the files.

To push these files, please run `git push -o nokeycheck`.

Note: To help store security keys more securely, consider using Cloud Key Management Service.

Before you begin

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Go to project selector

Disable security key detection

To disable security key detection, use the following gcloud command:

    gcloud init
    gcloud source project-configs update --disable-pushblock

Enable security key detection

To enable private key detection, use the following gcloud command:

    gcloud init
    gcloud source project-configs update --enable-pushblock

Override security key detection

To override the security key detection feature, use the following git command:

    git push -o nokeycheck

What's next

After you set up a Google Cloud repository, you might find the following topics helpful:

• Controlling access to repositories
• Using the source browser