Create or update an organization secret

Creates or updates an organization secret with an encrypted value. Encrypt your secret using LibSodium. You must authenticate using an access token with the admin:org scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the secrets organization permission to use this endpoint.

PUT /orgs/:org/actions/secrets/:secret_name

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`encrypted_value`	`string`	Value for your secret, encrypted with LibSodium using the public key retrieved from the Get an organization public key endpoint.
`key_id`	`string`	ID of the key you used to encrypt the secret.
`visibility`	`string`	Configures the access that repositories have to the organization secret. Can be one of: - `all` - All repositories in an organization can access the secret. - `private` - Private repositories in an organization can access the secret. - `selected` - Only specific repositories can access the secret.
`selected_repository_ids`	`array of strings`	An array of repository ids that can access the organization secret. You can only provide a list of repository ids when the `visibility` is set to `selected`. You can manage the list of selected repositories using the List selected repositories for an organization secret, Set selected repositories for an organization secret, and Remove selected repository from an organization secret endpoints.

Example encrypting a secret using Node.js

Encrypt your secret using the tweetsodium library.

const sodium = require('tweetsodium');

const key = "base64-encoded-public-key";
const value = "plain-text-secret";

// Convert the message and key to Uint8Array's (Buffer implements that interface)
const messageBytes = Buffer.from(value);
const keyBytes = Buffer.from(key, 'base64');

// Encrypt using LibSodium.
const encryptedBytes = sodium.seal(messageBytes, keyBytes);

// Base64 the encrypted secret
const encrypted = Buffer.from(encryptedBytes).toString('base64');

console.log(encrypted);

Example encrypting a secret using Python

Encrypt your secret using pynacl with Python 3.

from base64 import b64encode
from nacl import encoding, public

def encrypt(public_key: str, secret_value: str) -> str:
    """Encrypt a Unicode string using the public key."""
    public_key = public.PublicKey(public_key.encode("utf-8"), encoding.Base64Encoder())
    sealed_box = public.SealedBox(public_key)
    encrypted = sealed_box.encrypt(secret_value.encode("utf-8"))
    return b64encode(encrypted).decode("utf-8")

Example encrypting a secret using C#

Encrypt your secret using the Sodium.Core package.

var secretValue = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("mySecret");
var publicKey = Convert.FromBase64String("2Sg8iYjAxxmI2LvUXpJjkYrMxURPc8r+dB7TJyvvcCU=");

var sealedPublicKeyBox = Sodium.SealedPublicKeyBox.Create(secretValue, publicKey);

Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToBase64String(sealedPublicKeyBox));

Example encrypting a secret using Ruby

Encrypt your secret using the rbnacl gem.

require "rbnacl"
require "base64"

key = Base64.decode64("+ZYvJDZMHUfBkJdyq5Zm9SKqeuBQ4sj+6sfjlH4CgG0=")
public_key = RbNaCl::PublicKey.new(key)

box = RbNaCl::Boxes::Sealed.from_public_key(public_key)
encrypted_secret = box.encrypt("my_secret")

# Print the base64 encoded secret
puts Base64.strict_encode64(encrypted_secret)

Example input parameters

{
  "encrypted_value": "****************************************************************************************",
  "key_id": "012345678912345678",
  "visibility": "selected",
  "selected_repository_ids": [
    1296269,
    1296280
  ]
}

Response when creating a secret

Status: 201 Created

Response when updating a secret

Status: 204 No Content