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Tony of OpenBao: the interview
Tony (Team member, OpenBao) on Udienza: SPIFFE identities and short-lived dynamic secrets for AI agents, and external keys on an HSM in OpenBao 2.7.
By 
Luca Berton
Who Tony is
Tony is part of the team behind OpenBao, the open source secrets manager that forked from HashiCorp Vault and is a project of the OpenSSF, under the Linux Foundation. The show met him in the OpenSSF area at Open Source Summit Europe 2026 in Prague.
The conversation
The conversation, Secrets and identity for AI agents, was recorded at Open Source Summit Europe, Prague. It starts from one question: How should an AI agent get its credentials? It covers SPIFFE identities and short-lived dynamic secrets for AI agents, and external keys on an HSM in OpenBao 2.7.
OpenBao
OpenBao is an open source secrets manager, a fork of HashiCorp Vault that stays compatible with its API, and a project of the OpenSSF under the Linux Foundation. Everyone the show has interviewed there is listed on OpenBao on Udienza.
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