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logger.DefaultFilterConfig matches field names by case-insensitive substring, so its bare key needle masked every field merely containing the word — keys, tenant_key, cache_key, and the plain key the framework logs at fifteen of its own sites — with no way to unmask one short of replacing the whole default list. Key material is now named needle by needle instead: api_key, private_key, signing_key, encryption_key, each in the underscore, concatenated and hyphenated spellings the matcher treats as unrelated.

Impact

This un-masks, which is the whole risk: a field matched only by the removed needle — license_key, hmac_key, Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key, or the JWKS container keys — starts logging in clear on upgrade, silently. ADR-072 and migration atom [C60.13] state both directions; the remedy is one log.sensitivefields entry. secret_key needs no needle — secret already covers it.

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make mutate produced no mutants on the changed lines — the diff is a string-slice literal plus comments — so the pinning is the new table test, which asserts each needle individually and fails if any single one is dropped. Hyphenated coverage exists because httpclient logs whole http.Header maps through this filter under LogPayloads.

Closes #1037

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved default log filtering to mask explicit API, private, signing, encryption, and secret-key fields, including hyphenated variants.
    • Prevented unrelated identifier fields containing “key” from being masked by default.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on updated filtering behavior, migration considerations, and configuring additional sensitive fields.
    • Clarified keystore naming and sensitive-field handling.

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The default log filter no longer masks every field containing key. It now matches explicit API, private, signing, and encryption key variants. Tests and documentation cover the changed masking behavior, migration guidance, and custom sensitive-field configuration.

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Sensitive-field filtering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filter contract and logging alignment
logger/filter.go, keystore/module.go
The default filter replaces the bare key matcher with explicit key-material variants. The keystore comment now identifies name as the logical entry name.
Filter regression coverage
logger/filter_test.go
Tests verify masking for explicit secret-key shapes and preserve bare or identifier-like key names.
Decision and migration documentation
wiki/adr_072_default_log_filter_names_key_material_explicitly.md, wiki/architecture_decisions.md, wiki/observability.md, wiki/migrations.md
Documentation records the new matching rules, affected fields, migration checks, and custom log.sensitivefields configuration.

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This PR intentionally narrows default log redaction, so fields such as license keys, HMAC keys, vendor subscription headers, or private key containers may be written in clear unless each deployment audits and extends its configuration. Because the migration preflight can miss field names and verification guidance needs synthetic-value coverage, the change carries high merge-readiness risk and should not merge until those safeguards are strengthened or explicitly accepted by the responsible owners.

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No broad key shadows them again.
Named secrets still hide,
Clear identifiers abide,
While tests guard the filter’s pen. 🐇

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes remove bare "key" masking, preserve key-material coverage, retain the caveat, and add tests and migration guidance for issue #1037.
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In `@wiki/migrations.md`:
- Around line 3709-3712: Update the verification guidance to require a
synthetic, non-production secret value and a staging or disposable logger when
the secret field is unconfigured, so plaintext logging cannot expose a real
credential.
- Around line 3664-3671: Expand the C60.13 detection step in the migration
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gaborage force-pushed the fix/logger-drop-bare-key-needle branch 2 times, most recently from 7bae21f to d18e999 Compare August 21, 2026 02:37
DefaultFilterConfig masks a log value when its FIELD NAME matches a needle,
case-insensitively, by substring. The list carried a bare "key", so every
field whose name merely contained the word was masked: "keys",
"tenant_key", "cache_key", "routing_key", and the plain "key" the framework
logs at fifteen of its own sites — fourteen a tenant or resource
identifier, one the name of a reserved envelope-meta key. All rendered ***,
and the YAML seam only ADDS needles, so no consumer could unmask one
without abandoning the default list wholesale.

Key material is named needle by needle instead: private_key, signing_key,
encryption_key and api_key, each in three spellings — underscore,
concatenated, and hyphenated — because the matcher relates them not at all.
secret_key and secretkey get no entry; the "secret" needle already covers
both, and adding them would read as coverage while being dead weight.

The hyphenated spellings are not tidiness. httpclient logs whole
http.Header maps through this filter under LogPayloads, and the header is
spelled X-Api-Key, which the bare needle masked and no underscore needle
does. A single "-key" needle would catch every such header and also mask
Idempotency-Key — an identifier consumers send on every payment POST, and
exactly the over-masking this change exists to end.

This UN-MASKS, which is the whole risk: a field the new list does not name
— license_key, hmac_key, Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key — starts logging in
clear on upgrade with no error and no warning. Documented as ADR-072 and
migration atom C60.13, whose gate names both directions and whose remedy is
one line of log.sensitivefields.

The security gate found one shape worth calling out separately: "keys" is
the JWKS container. The bare needle stopped the filter's walk there; now it
recurses, and a JWK's "d" — the RSA private exponent — matches no needle.
Reachable only through LogPayloads, which is off by default and documented
dev-only, and named in both the ADR and the atom.

Also from the gates: keystore/module.go's "name, not key" comment cited the
bare needle as its reason, which this change removes — the field name is
still right, the rationale is now stated as such.
SonarCloud S8193 on the new table test: the `masked` variable existed only
to be compared on the same line it was declared. Comparing the expression
directly says the same thing in one step.

No behavior change; the assertion and its message are unchanged.
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gaborage force-pushed the fix/logger-drop-bare-key-needle branch from d18e999 to 6522efc Compare August 21, 2026 02:45
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