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Life & fun · August 23, 2016

SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight

SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight launched on August 23, 2016 with 75 votes, #710 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In plain words

SecretCrypt is a tool for managing sensitive information in server-side applications, such as database passwords, API tokens, and private keys. It addresses the problem of storing secrets alongside non-secret configuration items by providing a way to keep sensitive data separate and secure. The tool handles encryption of production configuration files, reducing the complexity of managing secrets in deployment workflows.

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What is a secret ? It’s information we don’t want others to know. In the context of server side applications the secrets are database passwords, API tokens, private keys and other information that we want to keep secret. Many of such secrets are specified in the configuration files, alongside items that don’t necessarily need to be secret, such as database names, debug flags and other configuration. As a result, production configuration files are often kept encrypted in a separate repository then decrypted at deploy time. This approach works, but becomes cumbersome when the non-secret configuration is frequently changed or when new secrets are often added to the application. Because every…from zemanta.github.io

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