Lorenzo Colin Neil

College of Engineering

Works (3)

Updated: April 5th, 2024 16:47

2023 article

SecretBench: A Dataset of Software Secrets

2023 IEEE/ACM 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES, MSR, pp. 347–351.

By: S. Basak n , L. Neil n, B. Reaves n & L. Williams n

TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to aid researchers and tool developers in evaluating and improving secret detection tools by curating a benchmark dataset of secrets through a systematic collection of secrets from open-source repositories. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: September 5, 2023

2023 article

What Challenges Do Developers Face About Checked-in Secrets in Software Artifacts?

2023 IEEE/ACM 45TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ICSE, pp. 1635–1647.

By: S. Basak n , L. Neil n, B. Reaves n & L. Williams n

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the same solution has been mentioned to mitigate multiple challenges, and an increasing trend in questions lacking accepted solutions substantiating the need for future research and tool automation on managing secrets. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: September 5, 2023

2022 article

What are the Practices for Secret Management in Software Artifacts?

2022 IEEE SECURE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE (SECDEV 2022), pp. 69–76.

By: S. Basak n , L. Neil n, B. Reaves n & L. Williams n

author keywords: secret management; practices; empirical study; grey literature; secure development
TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to aid practitioners in avoiding the exposure of secrets by identifying secret management practices in software artifacts through a systematic derivation of practices disseminated in Internet artifacts. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: February 20, 2023

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