Feature Request: General Caching
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- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
It would be great if SOPS could cache the keys it retrieves from services like GCP KMS and others.
In a git repository with hundreds of encrypted files, it takes forever to run a simple log search.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how SOPS retrieves keys from GCP KMS and other services during a log search. Determine the intended cache scope, lifetime, invalidation behavior, and handling of repeated key requests. Done should mean searches over repositories with many encrypted files avoid unnecessary key retrieval while preserving correct decryption.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- gcp, go
- Domain
- cli, performance, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100