This sounds great and would also helpful in updating Rails (I know updating
is a breeze for some apps, but not always).


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Bert Goethals <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Security is always a hot topic, and in our company especially.
> We where looking into the secret tokens. And we think we can do a step
> better than an "secrets.yml" file.
>
> The fact is that system administrators still have access to the secret
> token, and that is not always acceptable.
> Replacing the secret token each time an admin leaves, is not a viable
> solution. So we fought, how about a dynamic token?
>
> Proposing to make the token "callable". Besides being a string, the token
> could be a proc or anything responding to call, receiving the request
> object.
> This allows the implementer to dynamically change the token.
>
> This can be useful to have a separate token per domain, very useful in
> multi tenant applications.
>
> If there is intrest in this, I'm willing to develop it as well!
>
> What do you think?
>
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