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API key

SG. prefixed API key (full-access and restricted-access permission scopes share this format).

Twilio SendGrid
Detectors: sendgrid-token
Run 2026-10-07
Mode published · redact-secret 0.1.0-beta.14

Dossier verdictReady
Dossier evidence levelT1 · Provider-documented
Dossier researched2026-09-20

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

Research record

From credential-evidence snapshot-2026.10.06.4 · records at 77ce761 · schema 1.8.0. It describes the research on the format, not what any scanner or the product does, and not a support status.

Review stateDraft, not reviewed
Format revision1 · current
ResearchResearched
Researched2026-09-20

1 event in the review history: 1 reviewed. Latest: reviewed on 2026-09-20 by automation, project maintainer. Project-maintained review is not independent validation. The family record at this release.

Format

Provider format research from credential-evidence snapshot-2026.10.06.4 · records at 77ce761 · schema 1.8.0.

What it looks like

Descriptive pattern: ^SG\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{22}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{43}$

Parts are shown as recorded. Evidence classes belong to the facts below; no class is assigned to a part.

Format facts

Provider documented · provider-source · current · observed 2026-09-20
fixed 69-character key length: the total key is documented as always 69 characters and never shorter; the SG. prefix, the dot-separated id/secret segments, the 22/43 character split between them and the alphabet are tool-corroborated, not this citation
- support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/44146758703387-Can-I-Use-a-Reduced-Shorter-API-Key-Size-in-SendGridprovider-documentation · last read 2026-10-03 · latest outcome unchanged · supports the total key is documented as always 69 characters and never shorter; the SG. prefix, the dot-separated id/secret segments, the 22/43 character split between them and the alphabet are tool-corroborated, not this citation
Tool corroborated · tool-corroboration · current · observed 2026-09-20
Pinned scanner rules are consistent with the contract grammar (2 artifacts: gitleaks 8.30.1; trufflehog 3.97.4).
- gitleaks/gitleaks @ v8.30.1: config/gitleaks.tomlscanner-rule-source · last read 2026-10-04 · latest outcome read · supports gitleaks 8.30.1: gitleaks.toml
- trufflesecurity/trufflehog @ v3.97.4: pkg/detectors/sendgrid/sendgrid.goscanner-rule-source · last read 2026-09-20 · latest outcome read · supports trufflehog 3.97.4: sendgrid/sendgrid
Provider documented · dossier-research · current · observed 2026-09-20
Legacy dossier research (verdict ready, tier T1) cited 1 source; the dossier does not attribute sources to individual properties.
- support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/44146758703387-Can-I-Use-a-Reduced-Shorter-API-Key-Size-in-SendGridprovider-documentation · last read 2026-10-03 · latest outcome unchanged · supports Cited by the legacy dossier research for this family

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this revision.

Benchmark dossier notes

From the provider dossier, as written. The evidence level above says how well the format is backed; a fact the dossier does not record is not shown.

Shape: SG. prefixed API key (full-access and restricted-access permission scopes share this format).
Basis: ready, T1 per the shipped sendgrid-token contract in the benchmarks assessment. Its provider source is a SendGrid support article stating a fixed total key length of 69 characters (added 2026-09-20 by benchmarks PR #34, closing #33). The SG. prefix, the dot-separated 22 and 43 character segments and the alphabet are tool-corroborated, not stated by that page.
Contract in core: detector-families.md.

In this benchmark

Fixture rows on the current run. Counts are for redact-secret in published · redact-secret 0.1.0-beta.14 mode.

Fixtures: 167
Left readable: 30
Redacted too much: 0
False alarms: 0

167 fixtures: 58 expect a redaction, 40 must stay quiet, 69 record project policy. See every row

redact-secret fixture counts by evidence level
Evidence level	Fixtures	Left readable
T1Provider-documented	47	1
T2Tool-corroborated	36	9
T3Project policy	75	20
T0Pending review	9	0

Every scanner on the same fixtures

In run order. Counts are what each scanner recorded on this family's fixtures, whichever rules it has; a scanner with no rule for the family has nothing to report on it.

Counts per scanner on this family's fixtures
Scanner	Fixtures	Left readable	Too much	False alarms
flare-redactRuntime library · 1.6.1 · Published npm package · secrets-only (pii, generic_assignment disabled) · JavaScript engine1 rule targets it	167	42	1	16
gitleaksRepository scanner · 8.30.1 · Directory scan · default rules1 rule targets it	167	32	0	0
redact-secretProduct measured here · 0.1.0-beta.14 · Published npm package · default detectors1 detector mapped	167	30	0	0
trufflehogRepository scanner · 3.97.4 · Filesystem scan · verification disabled1 rule targets it	167	100	0	16

Scanner rules for this family

Mapped by hand (reviewed 2026-09-30) from each scanner's pinned rule file, never from what a scanner found on the fixtures.

Peer scanner rules that target this family
Scanner	Rule	What the rule matches
flare-redact · rules 1.6.1	`sendgrid_key`	SG. + 16-32 + . + 16-64 characters
gitleaks · rules 8.30.1	`sendgrid-api-token`	SG. + 66 characters
openredaction · rules 1.1.5	`SENDGRID_API_KEY`	SG. + 22 + . + 43 characters
trufflehog · rules 3.97.4	`sendgrid`	SG. + 20-24 + . + 39-50 characters

Find

Evidence level

Scanners

167 of 167 rows

Fixtures in this family

167 rows, redact-secret's outcome on each. Rows that need a look come first (30), then the rest in corpus order. Choose "Every scanner" to see each scanner's outcome for the same rows.

Fixtures in API key
Fixture	Kind and evidence	redact-secret
`sendgrid-key-base64-standard-padded-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base64-standard-padded-in-json`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base64-standard-padded-in-url`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base64-standard-padded-three-layers-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-nested-encoding-layers	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base64-url-safe-unpadded-of-base64-standard-padded-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-nested-encoding-layers	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base64-url-safe-unpadded-of-hex-upper-of-base64-standard-padded-in-json`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-nested-encoding-layers	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-lower-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-lower-in-url`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-lower-of-base64-standard-padded-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-nested-encoding-layers	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-lower-of-hex-lower-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-nested-encoding-layers	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-mixed-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-upper-in-env`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-hex-upper-in-json`base64-hex-representation-projections · credential-in-base64-or-hex-form	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`get-url-variables-value`graphql-requests-and-responses-authored · graphql-variables-map-value-and-literal-beside-variable-references	Must redactT1 · Provider-documented	Left readable
`key-split-across-javascript-added-literals`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-across-concatenated-string-literals	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-across-python-adjacent-literals`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-across-concatenated-string-literals	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-after-prefix-by-shell-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-shell-backslash-newline	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-before-last-character-by-shell-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-shell-backslash-newline	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-by-backslash-crlf-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-backslash-crlf-continuation	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-split-by-backslash-newline-in-single-quotes`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-backslash-newline-inside-single-quotes	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-split-by-double-quoted-shell-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-shell-backslash-newline	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-by-javascript-literal-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-string-literal-line-continuation	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-by-literal-crlf`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-literal-line-break-in-plain-text	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-split-by-literal-line-feed`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-literal-line-break-in-plain-text	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-split-by-python-literal-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-string-literal-line-continuation	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-by-unquoted-shell-continuation`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-shell-backslash-newline	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-split-in-three-javascript-added-literals`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-across-concatenated-string-literals	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Left readable
`key-with-literal-backslash-n-in-log-line`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-with-escaped-line-break-text	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-wrapped-in-markdown-code-span`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-markdown-paragraph-line-ending	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`key-wrapped-in-markdown-paragraph`line-break-and-fragment-authored · credential-split-by-markdown-paragraph-line-ending	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Left readable
`sendgrid-key-base`base64-hex-representation-bases · sendgrid-key-in-provider-named-fields	Must redactT1 · Provider-documented	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-base-a`context-and-large-input-bases-authored · environment-assignment	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-base-b`context-and-large-input-bases-authored · environment-assignment	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-bare-value`context-carrier-projections-generated · value-at-input-edges	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-bearer-header`context-carrier-projections-generated · partial-span-leakage	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-bom-prefix`context-carrier-projections-generated · multibyte-text-offsets	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-crlf-lines`context-carrier-projections-generated · crlf-line-endings	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-emoji-prefix`context-carrier-projections-generated · multibyte-text-offsets	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-json-field`context-carrier-projections-generated · structured-text-value	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-korean-text-prefix`context-carrier-projections-generated · multibyte-text-offsets	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-log-line`context-carrier-projections-generated · environment-assignment	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-markdown-code-span`context-carrier-projections-generated · markdown-and-comment-value	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-nbsp-before-value`context-carrier-projections-generated · multibyte-text-offsets	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-shell-export-quoted`context-carrier-projections-generated · quoted-value-extent	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-url-query`context-carrier-projections-generated · partial-span-leakage	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-xml-element`context-carrier-projections-generated · structured-text-value	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`sendgrid-api-key-yaml-scalar`context-carrier-projections-generated · structured-text-value	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`post-body-inline-literal`graphql-requests-and-responses-authored · graphql-variables-map-value-and-literal-beside-variable-references	Must redactT1 · Provider-documented	Redacted
`post-body-variables-value`graphql-requests-and-responses-authored · graphql-variables-map-value-and-literal-beside-variable-references	Must redactT1 · Provider-documented	Redacted
`request-then-full-echo-in-error-message`graphql-requests-and-responses-authored · graphql-error-response-echo-of-supplied-secret	Must redactT1 · Provider-documented	Redacted

Sources

Researched 2026-09-20.

Documentation and code

support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/44146758703387-Can-I-Use-a-Reduced-Shorter-API-Key-Size-in-SendGrid

Research log

redact-secret/redact-secret-benchmarks#33Research issue