[HN Gopher] Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins...
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       Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps
        
       Author : Olshansky
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-03-12 17:31 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | johng wrote:
       | Looks like every other CLI manager I've ever seen. It says not
       | ready for production use. What's different for this than the
       | others?
        
       | opan wrote:
       | Dangerously close to "scrot" which is both an X11 screenshot tool
       | and general slang for a screenshot.
        
         | voidfunc wrote:
         | Ive been working with Linux for 25ish years and have never
         | heard of scrot. I think there's low probability of confusion
         | lol.
        
           | imcritic wrote:
           | Same. First time hearing about scrot.
        
       | ComputerGuru wrote:
       | Possibly of interest to readers (but not directly competing) is
       | securestore, our open-source, open-protocol, cross-language
       | framework (cli tool + libraries) for securely storing secrets and
       | programmatically retrieving them in production:
       | https://neosmart.net/blog/securestore-open-secrets-format/
       | 
       | donet version: https://github.com/neosmart/SecureStore
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       | rust version: https://github.com/neosmart/securestore-rs
       | 
       | (This one _is_ production ready)
        
       | moontear wrote:
       | I thought SOPS with age is what we were doing now. Do we need yet
       | another tooling?
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       | https://github.com/getsops/sops
        
         | patabyte wrote:
         | SOPS with Age is simple, and simple is good. I strongly
         | recommend this approach.
        
           | sam_lowry_ wrote:
           | SOPS is simple? You are kidding me. Pass from
           | https://www.passwordstore.org/ fame is simple. SOPS is ultra-
           | complicated for a security tool.
        
             | sevg wrote:
             | I dunno, it seems mostly simple to me.
             | 
             | You have a .sops.yaml with some Age public keys, and then
             | you run "sops secrets.yml" to create an encrypted file.
        
             | jmholla wrote:
             | Can you explain what you find complicated about sops? I've
             | used it with ease for the last two years, both personally
             | and professionally.
        
         | oulipo2 wrote:
         | There's also https://github.com/jdx/fnox
        
       | oulipo2 wrote:
       | How does it compare to https://github.com/jdx/fnox
        
       | microheart wrote:
       | I wonder what does the solution do differently than the rest of
       | the CLI managers?
        
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