OpenAI API key

ID openai_api_key

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Secret key of the OpenAI API. Keys start with sk-; project, service account and admin keys start with sk-proj-, sk-svcacct- or sk-admin-. Secret scanners recognise them by the fixed marker T3BlbkFJ in the middle of the key. Examples are left out because GitHub push protection rejects token-shaped values, even constructed ones.

Parent datatype: API key or client secret api_key
Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens)
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 63/100 · missing: examples, authoritative source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: detect-secrets, Gitleaks, Semgrep, TruffleHog

Regular expression

^(?:sk-(?:proj|svcacct|admin)-(?:[A-Za-z0-9_-]{74}|[A-Za-z0-9_-]{58})T3BlbkFJ(?:[A-Za-z0-9_-]{74}|[A-Za-z0-9_-]{58})|sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{20}T3BlbkFJ[A-Za-z0-9]{20})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
sk-ExampleKeyNotReal000ExampleKeyNotReal000 invalid	The T3BlbkFJ marker is missing

Sources

other: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml

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