RbNaCl
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| RbNaCl | bundler-audit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | |
| 977 | 2,646 | |
| -0.1% | 0.6% | |
| 2.9 | 6.1 | |
| about 1 month ago | 3 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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RbNaCl
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Ruby cryptographic gems
The other gem I want to explore is rbnacl. This gem provides general purpose cryptography for many different scenarios and algorithms. They do so in a simplified way so that mortals like us don't have to become cryptography experts. Check out these docs to see what I'm talking about!
bundler-audit
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4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
This Ruby gem is quite useful for detecting versions of gems that are known to be vulnerable to security issues. bundler-audit uses an open database of vulnerable gems called ruby-advisory-db and compares it to the versions that show up in your Gemfile.lock.
- How do you guys integrate automated security checks in your CI/CD pipelines?
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What are the gems that every Ruby dev should know how to use?
bundler-audit - check for known security issues
- Hakiri has been sunset, any alternatives?
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Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
Let’s take the super famous gem bundler-audit, for instance. It works closely with bundler to provide patch-level verification for your project gems, such as vulnerability checks, insecure gem sources, etc.
What are some alternatives?
Metasploit - Metasploit Framework
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Clamby - ClamAV interface to your Ruby on Rails project.
TSS - Threshold Secret Sharing - A Ruby implementation of Threshold Secret Sharing (Shamir) as defined in IETF Internet-Draft draft-mcgrew-tss-03.txt
SecureHeaders - Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults
Gitrob - Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations
Rack::UTF8Sanitizer - Rack::UTF8Sanitizer is a Rack middleware which cleans up invalid UTF8 characters in request URI and headers.
sessionKeys - A tool for the deterministic generation of unique user IDs, and NaCl cryptographic keys from a single username and high entropy passphrase.