Project Stash House — Workstation Credential Stewardship

The Problem: Workstation Entropy

Developer workstations are highly dynamic environments, prone to accumulating sensitive credentials across a multitude of unencrypted files, configuration stubs, and source code repositories. This "workstation sprawl" creates a significant attack surface, despite best-effort pre-commit security tooling in CI/CD pipelines. Project stash-house addresses this post-sprawl remediation challenge, offering a reproducible framework for local secret hygiene and encrypted stewardship.

Core Operational Primitives

Stash House leverages standard UNIX tooling to establish a robust local-first credential management system:

• Local GPG Keys: All secrets are encrypted using a developer's personal GPG key, ensuring a strong, auditable chain of custody.
• Standard UNIX pass Utility: Credentials are stored in a hierarchical GPG-encrypted directory structure managed by the pass utility. This provides a familiar, plaintext-agnostic interface for secret retrieval.
• Keyringer Integration: For teams requiring shared secret management without a centralized vault, keyringer extends pass with robust multi-user access controls and revocation mechanisms.

The core principle is to treat the workstation as the definitive source of truth for credentials, with strong encryption at rest and a clearly defined materialization boundary.

Interactive Terminal Demo: 4-Phase Workflow

Experience the Stash House workflow firsthand with this interactive terminal simulator. Click through the tabs to see how exposed credentials are discovered, secured, and safely used.

Stash House Resource Catalog

Explore the full suite of Stash House project assets, including the white paper, presentation slides, and supporting documentation.