Knox Reviews in 2026

Audience

Companies interested in a service for storing and rotation of secrets, keys, and passwords used by other services

About Knox

Knox is a secret management service. Knox is a service for storing and rotation of secrets, keys, and passwords used by other services. Pinterest has a plethora of keys or secrets doing things like signing cookies, encrypting data, protecting our network via TLS, accessing our AWS machines, communicating with our third parties, and many more. If these keys become compromised, rotating (or changing our keys) used to be a difficult process generally involving a deploy and likely a code change. Keys/secrets within Pinterest were stored in git repositories. This means they were copied all over our company's infrastructure and present on many of our employees laptops. There was no way to audit who accessed or who has access to the keys. Knox was built to solve these problems. Ease of use for developers to access/use confidential secrets, keys, and credentials. Confidentiality for secrets, keys, and credentials. Provide mechanisms for key rotation in case of compromise.

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Free Version:

Free Version available.

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API:

Yes, Knox offers API access

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