🟥 Auth::Sanitizer

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🌻 Synopsis

auth-sanitizer provides small, dependency-light helpers for keeping OAuth and authentication secrets out of object inspection and log output.

The gem is intentionally narrow in scope. It does not change HTTP requests, token objects, persistence, or application configuration for you. Instead, it gives host gems and applications two reusable redaction surfaces:

• Auth::Sanitizer::FilteredAttributes redacts selected instance variables from #inspect.
• Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger wraps an existing logger and redacts sensitive values from string log messages.

Out of the box, logger sanitization filters the key names most commonly found in OAuth and OpenID Connect debug output:

Auth::Sanitizer.default_filtered_keys
# => [
#      "access_token",
#      "refresh_token",
#      "id_token",
#      "client_secret",
#      "assertion",
#      "code_verifier",
#      "token",
#    ]

Redacted values are replaced with "[FILTERED]" by default. The replacement label can be changed globally by installing a provider, or per logger by passing label: to Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new.

The library snapshots filter configuration when a redacting object is initialized. That keeps already-created objects and logger wrappers stable even if a host application changes its configuration later.

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Compatible with MRI Ruby 2.2.0+, and concordant releases of JRuby, and TruffleRuby.

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✨ Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add auth-sanitizer

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install auth-sanitizer

🔒 Secure Installation

For Medium or High Security Installations

This gem is cryptographically signed and has verifiable SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums by stone_checksums. Be sure the gem you install hasn’t been tampered with by following the instructions below.

Add my public key (if you haven’t already; key expires 2045-04-29) as a trusted certificate:

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You only need to do that once. Then proceed to install with:

gem install auth-sanitizer -P HighSecurity

The HighSecurity trust profile will verify signed gems, and not allow the installation of unsigned dependencies.

If you want to up your security game full-time:

bundle config set --global trust-policy MediumSecurity

MediumSecurity instead of HighSecurity is necessary if not all the gems you use are signed.

NOTE: Be prepared to track down certs for signed gems and add them the same way you added mine.

⚙️ Configuration

Most applications can use the defaults. Configuration is available when a host gem or application wants to align redaction with its own logging conventions.

Filtered Label

The default replacement label is:

Auth::Sanitizer.filtered_label
# => "[FILTERED]"

To use a different label globally, install a callable provider:

Auth::Sanitizer.filtered_label_provider = -> { "[REDACTED]" }

The provider is called when a FilteredAttributes object or SanitizedLogger wrapper is initialized. Existing instances keep the label they captured at initialization time:

Auth::Sanitizer.filtered_label_provider = -> { "[FILTERED]" }
logger = Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new(Logger.new($stdout))

Auth::Sanitizer.filtered_label_provider = -> { "[REDACTED]" }

# `logger` still uses "[FILTERED]"; new wrappers use "[REDACTED]".

This makes it safe for libraries to delegate the label to host configuration:

Auth::Sanitizer.filtered_label_provider = -> { MyGem.config.filtered_label }

Logger Keys

Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger defaults to Auth::Sanitizer.default_filtered_keys. Pass filtered_keys: when your application logs additional sensitive fields:

logger = Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new(
  Logger.new($stdout),
  filtered_keys: Auth::Sanitizer.default_filtered_keys + %w[
    api_key
    private_key
    session_secret
  ],
)

You can also replace the list entirely:

logger = Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new(
  Logger.new($stdout),
  filtered_keys: %w[my_secret],
  label: "[GONE]",
)

Logger key matching is case-insensitive for supported string formats. The keys are used to redact:

• JSON-style pairs, such as "access_token": "abc123" and 'client_secret': 'abc123'
• query-string and form-encoded pairs, such as access_token=abc123&scope=read
• Authorization: header values, regardless of filtered_keys

Only string payloads are sanitized. Non-string log payloads are delegated unchanged to the wrapped logger.

Inspect Attributes

Classes opt in to inspect redaction by including Auth::Sanitizer::FilteredAttributes and declaring the attribute names that should be hidden:

class OAuthCredential
  include Auth::Sanitizer::FilteredAttributes

  attr_reader :access_token, :expires_at

  filtered_attributes :access_token

  def initialize(access_token, expires_at)
    @access_token = access_token
    @expires_at = expires_at
  end
end

Declared names are matched against instance variable names. For example, filtered_attributes :access_token redacts @access_token in #inspect.

Calling filtered_attributes again replaces the class-level list:

OAuthCredential.filtered_attributes(:access_token, :refresh_token)
OAuthCredential.filtered_attribute_names
# => [:access_token, :refresh_token]

Passing no attributes clears the class-level list for subsequently initialized objects:

OAuthCredential.filtered_attributes
OAuthCredential.filtered_attribute_names
# => []

As with logger wrappers, the per-object filter is captured during initialization. Objects that already exist keep their original inspect behavior.

🔧 Basic Usage

Require the gem:

require "auth/sanitizer"

Redact #inspect

Use Auth::Sanitizer::FilteredAttributes for objects that may appear in exception messages, console sessions, or debug output through #inspect:

class TokenResponse
  include Auth::Sanitizer::FilteredAttributes

  attr_reader :access_token, :refresh_token, :scope

  filtered_attributes :access_token, :refresh_token

  def initialize(access_token:, refresh_token:, scope:)
    @access_token = access_token
    @refresh_token = refresh_token
    @scope = scope
  end
end

response = TokenResponse.new(
  access_token: "access-token-value",
  refresh_token: "refresh-token-value",
  scope: "profile email",
)

response.inspect
# => #<TokenResponse:123456 @access_token=[FILTERED], @refresh_token=[FILTERED], @scope="profile email">

Only the configured attributes are redacted. Other instance variables remain visible so inspected objects are still useful while debugging.

Redact Logger Output

Wrap an existing logger with Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger:

require "logger"
require "auth/sanitizer"

logger = Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new(Logger.new($stdout))

logger.debug("access_token=abc123&scope=profile")
# Logs: access_token=[FILTERED]&scope=profile

logger.debug('{"client_secret": "super-secret", "grant_type": "client_credentials"}')
# Logs: {"client_secret": "[FILTERED]", "grant_type": "client_credentials"}

logger.debug("Authorization: Bearer abc123")
# Logs: Authorization: "[FILTERED]"

The wrapper implements the common Ruby logger methods and sanitizes string values passed through them:

logger.add(Logger::DEBUG, "refresh_token=abc123", "oauth")
logger << "id_token=abc123"

logger.debug { "code_verifier=abc123" }
logger.info("token=abc123")
logger.warn("client_secret=abc123")
logger.error("assertion=abc123")
logger.fatal("Authorization: Bearer abc123")
logger.unknown("access_token=abc123")

The wrapper also delegates common logger configuration to the wrapped logger when supported:

logger.level = Logger::WARN
logger.progname = "my-app"
logger.formatter = proc { |_severity, _time, _progname, message| "#{message}\n" }
logger.close

Methods not implemented by the wrapper are delegated to the underlying logger when that logger responds to them.

Custom Logger Keys

Use filtered_keys: for application-specific secrets:

logger = Auth::Sanitizer::SanitizedLogger.new(
  Logger.new($stdout),
  filtered_keys: %w[access_token api_key signing_secret],
  label: "[SECRET]",
)

logger.debug("api_key=12345&access_token=abc123")
# Logs: api_key=[SECRET]&access_token=[SECRET]

filtered_keys: applies to JSON-style, query-string, and form-encoded key/value pairs. Authorization: headers are always redacted by SanitizedLogger, even if Authorization is not listed as a filtered key.

Important Limits

auth-sanitizer is a logging and inspection helper, not a complete secret-management system.

• It redacts supported string patterns before delegating to a logger.
• It does not mutate source hashes, token objects, HTTP requests, or HTTP responses.
• It does not recursively sanitize arbitrary Ruby objects passed to a logger as non-string payloads.
• It cannot protect secrets that are logged through a different logger, printed directly, or interpolated into an unsupported format.

For best results, wrap the logger as close as possible to the code that emits authentication debug output, and avoid logging raw token structures unless they pass through the sanitizer first.

🦷 FLOSS Funding

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🔐 Security

See SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

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📌 Versioning

This Library adheres to . Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs. Specifically, if a minor or patch version is released that breaks backward compatibility, a new version should be immediately released that restores compatibility. Breaking changes to the public API will only be introduced with new major versions.

dropping support for a platform is both obviously and objectively a breaking change
—Jordan Harband (@ljharb, maintainer of SemVer) in SemVer issue 716

I understand that policy doesn't work universally ("exceptions to every rule!"), but it is the policy here. As such, in many cases it is good to specify a dependency on this library using the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision.

For example:

spec.add_dependency("auth-sanitizer", "~> 0.0")

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To get a better understanding of how SemVer is intended to work over a project's lifetime, read this article from the creator of SemVer:

• "Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred"

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The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT .

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