Why do LLM keys all start with sk?

3 pointsby swaraj2 maanden geleden5 comments

Genuinely curious, as a builder for so long, API keys took all shapes and sizes, but what's with the sk prefix these days?

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benoau2 maanden geleden

I think Stripe started it long ago with "pk_" and "sk_" prefixes for public key and secret key.

fragmede2 maanden geleden

Fun fact! They weren't always prefixed. And then after someone spent hours pouring over the logs in Splunk, that's when they had the idea of prefixing then.

swaraj2 maanden geleden

that's actually a great reason / explanation. TY

Terr_2 maanden geleden

I assume it's loose convention intended to identify the string as "Secret Key", as a hint to the humans who might be moving the data around, and maybe to make it easier to write precautionary code like "hey it looks like your commit has a secret key in it, are you sure you want to push it?"

swaraj2 maanden geleden

this is actually a great idea + reason