{"id":5570,"date":"2026-03-22T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?page_id=5570"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:47:48","slug":"securestore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/securestore\/","title":{"rendered":"SecureStore: the simple answer to secrets management everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SecureStore.png\" rel=\"follow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3950 colorbox-5570\" src=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SecureStore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SecureStore.png 512w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SecureStore-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SecureStore-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>SecureStore<\/strong> is NeoSmart Technologies&#8217; open protocol for simple, truly secure, and sane secrets management for all projects, large and small. SecureStore is an open, cross-platform, and language-agnostic solution to all the most common woes and concerns that plague the usual solutions for secrets management, from environment files to vault\/secrets network endpoints.<\/p>\n<p>SecureStore is both an open protocol for a secrets container format (no more <code>.env<\/code> madness or security slip-ups!) that is secure, encrypted-at-rest, can (and even should!) be committed to your git repos alongside the code that uses them, and can be easily and securely deployed and updated with your existing tooling; as well as a family of secrets management libraries and apis for various languages and frameworks that lets you store and retrieve secrets from SecureStore secrets containers from various languages and environments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more about SecureStore, what it is, how it works, and how to use it in our article <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/securestore-open-secrets-format\/\" rel=\"follow\"><strong>Secure Store: the open secrets container format<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out our GitHub projects hosting the first-party <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore\" rel=\"nofollow\">.NET<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-rs\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rust<\/a> versions of the SecureStore library as well as two, separate implementations of\u00a0<strong>ssclient<\/strong>, the official cli interface and companion to the SecureStore container formats.<\/li>\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-rs\/releases\" rel=\"nofollow\">the <code>ssclient<\/code> binary<\/a> for creating SecureStore containers and adding or retrieving secrets from the command line. Multiple separate implementations exist, all of which can be used interchangeably (see below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Libraries allowing direct access to SecureStore secrets containers are available in the following languages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-rs\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore\" rel=\"nofollow\">C# and .NET<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-php\" rel=\"nofollow\">PHP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-go\" rel=\"nofollow\">Golang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-py\" rel=\"nofollow\">Python<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adamdriscoll\/PSSecretStore\" rel=\"nofollow\">PowerShell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-js\" rel=\"nofollow\">JavaScript\/TypeScript<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-rs\/tree\/master\/ssclient\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shell scripting<\/a> (via the cli)<\/li>\n<li>and more coming, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\/securestore-rs\/pulls\" rel=\"nofollow\">with your help<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Have you written a SecureStore library for your preferred language or framework? <a href=\"mailto:mqudsi@neosmart.net\">Let us know<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SecureStore is NeoSmart Technologies&#8217; open protocol for simple, truly secure, and sane secrets management for all projects, large and small. 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