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Postman API keys

46 fixtures
Format evidence: T2 · Tool-corroborated
Run 2026-10-07
Mode published · redact-secret 0.1.0-beta.14

New pipelineAuthority

Built from the new pipeline

The new pipeline is the authority for credential qualification. These numbers are read from the qualification view derived from the official credential-eval run of the public-evidence-snapshot population. The regression and policy populations keep their own counts on the qualification pages and are not added in here.

Authority: new
Population: public-evidence-snapshot
Engine: credential-eval 0.1.0-alpha.16
Evidence: snapshot-2026.10.06.4
Run: sha256:4bec6e539482…
Recorded: 2026-10-07
Authorised for: @redact-secret/core@0.1.0-beta.14

Maintainer-reviewed (independent review pending)

598 fixtures of the 7,041 in evidence release snapshot-2026.10.06.4 carry this label. They are counted in the numbers on this page.

Passed the project’s own verification (source evidence, automated checks, recorded counter-arguments); not yet independently reviewed.

OpenRedaction default (all patterns): not measured in this run (optional)

The default (all-pattern) profile is slow and noisy for credential evaluation: personal data and resource identifiers dominate its findings, and its last official measurement took 7 minutes of scanner time on a population the credential profile scans in seconds (its methods run takes 40+ minutes), so it is a manual measurement and never blocks other scanners or core verification (#763). Its earlier results stay as history with their run identity; the credential profile is a separate scanner, never spliced with it.

Last measurement: policy-corpus@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380), public-evidence-snapshot+methods@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:d47d081ce5fb), public-evidence-snapshot@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380), regression-corpus@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380) · engine 0.1.0-alpha.5 · recorded 2026-10-05 · retained record, no longer listed by the run registry. It stays labelled with that run identity and is never combined with another profile or another run.

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OpenRedaction credential profile (33 types): not measured in an official run (local exploratory diagnostics only: see ADR)

The credential profile is the comparison profile chosen in docs/decisions/2026-10-06-choose-the-openredaction-credential-bearing-profile-as-the-comparison-scanner.md. It is optional in the official run class because no pinned engine configuration measures it yet: making it required would refuse every official view until the owner approves the one profile-only run. Its own history starts with that run; nothing of the default's is reused for it.

No earlier measurement of it is recorded. Nothing is shown in its place.

Official measurement: pending: requires owner approval (one profile-only run; see the decision).

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Every population and its qualification

Format evidence

Postman's own API-authentication page (learning.postman.com/docs/developer/postman-api/authentication/, observed 2026-09-23) documents only the X-API-Key header and the postman-api-key variable, no key grammar. gitleaks 8.30.1's postman-api-token rule pins the structured shape this contract freezes — a case-sensitive PMAK- prefix, 24 case-insensitive hex bytes, a literal "-", then 34 hex bytes; trufflehog 3.97.4's postman detector matches the same prefix over a looser 59-byte [A-Za-z0-9-] body with no internal structure, a strict superset that corroborates the prefix and total width but not the hex-dash-hex structure. A body without the dash at offset 24, or with a non-hex byte in either segment, is an intentional false negative here even though trufflehog's wider rule still matches it; the family's separator and alphabet twins record exactly that peer difference. Collection and workspace ids and Postman Vault references carry no PMAK- run. redact-secret#310 (PR #668) froze the identical grammar on the product side.

What the run recorded, by group

Detector views overlap, so their groups are never summed across detectors. Other scanners are reference values on the same inputs, in run order.

Groups of Postman API keys fixtures
Group	Fixtures	Leaked or false alarms	Near-twins	Outcomes	Other scanners, same cell
Must not flag · Provider-documented	2	False alarmsinsufficient-evidence0 of 2 controls flagged		2 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact insufficient-evidence gitleaks insufficient-evidence trufflehog insufficient-evidence
Must not flag · Tool-corroborated	17	False alarmsat most 18.4%0 of 17 controls flagged		17 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact at most 18.4% gitleaks at most 18.4% trufflehog at most 58.7%
Must not flag · Project policy	9	False alarmsat most 29.9%0 of 9 controls flagged		9 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact at most 29.9% gitleaks at most 29.9% trufflehog at most 29.9%
Must redact · Tool-corroborated	18	Secret spans left readableat most 17.6%0 of 18 spans	Near-twins told apartat least 72.2%10 of 10 pairs	18 redacted · 0 too much · 0 partly exposed · 0 missed	flare-redact at most 17.6% gitleaks at most 17.6% trufflehog at most 17.6%

Find

Scanners

46 of 46 rows

Fixtures: 46
Left readable: 0
Redacted too much: 0
False alarms: 0

Fixtures for this detector

46 fixtures. Choose "Every scanner" to see each scanner's outcome for the same rows.

Fixtures in Postman API keys
Fixture	Kind and evidence	redact-secret
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-alphabet-bare-twin`postman · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-alphabet-quoted-twin`postman · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-alphabet-unicode-crlf-twin`postman · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-separator-bare-twin`postman · boundary-violation	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-separator-quoted-twin`postman · boundary-violation	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-separator-unicode-crlf-twin`postman · boundary-violation	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-actions-env`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-actions-secret-reference`postman · templated-reference	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-apikey-query`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-axios-client`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-collection-and-workspace-public-id`postman · public-identifier	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-compose-env`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-debug-log`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-docs-template-placeholder`postman · documentation-placeholder	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-env`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-identifier-near-miss`postman · format-near-miss	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-label-prose`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-mask`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-masked-settings-placeholder`postman · documentation-placeholder	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-newman-env-json`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-package-checksum-encoded-value`postman · benign-encoded-value	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-postman-login`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-postman-variable-reference`postman · templated-reference	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-prefix-only`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-public-id`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-raw-request`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-reference`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-run-summary-public-id`postman · public-identifier	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-settings-json`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-shell-export`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-shell-lookup-reference`postman · templated-reference	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`postman-api-key-short-body`postman · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-short-tail-in-prose-near-miss`postman · format-near-miss	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-bare`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-bare-twin`postman · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-quoted`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-quoted-twin`postman · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-unicode-crlf`postman · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`postman-api-key-structured-shape-unicode-crlf-twin`postman · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`postman-api-key-vault-note-prose`postman · prose-mention	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`collection-apikey-auth-literal`postman-authored · postman-collection-auth-value-attribute-holding-literal-credential	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`collection-apikey-auth-reference`postman-authored · postman-collection-auth-value-attribute-holding-variable-reference	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented · twin	Quiet
`collection-scope-literal-with-reference`postman-authored · postman-same-variable-name-in-collection-and-environment-scopes	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`environment-scope-literal`postman-authored · postman-same-variable-name-in-collection-and-environment-scopes	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`environment-secret-empty-value-source-object`postman-authored · postman-environment-secret-variable-without-value-resolved-from-source	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented	Quiet
`environment-secret-typed-literal`postman-authored · postman-environment-variable-typed-secret-holding-literal-value	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted