#418: How To Keep A Secret in Python Apps

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Think about the different APIs and databases your application works with. Every one of them requires either an API key or a database connection string that itself contains a password. How do you let your application access this sensitive information without storing it in source code or putting in other compromising locations? We have Glyph Lefkowitz on the show to share his security fable as well as just good advice for keeping secrets out of Python code.

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0:00.0	Think about the different APIs and databases your applications work with.
0:04.8	Each one of them requires either an API key or a database connection string that itself contains
0:10.4	a password.
0:11.5	How do you let your application access this sensitive information without storing it in
0:16.2	source code or put it in other compromising locations?
0:20.1	On this episode, we have Glyph on the show to share his security fable as well as just good
0:25.0	advice for keeping secrets out of Python code.
0:27.6	This is Talk Python to Me.
0:28.9	Episode 418 recorded May 24th, 2003. Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python.
0:50.1	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
0:51.8	Follow me on Massadon, where I'm at M. Kennedy, and follow the podcast using at TalkPython,
0:56.9	both on bostadon.org.
0:59.2	Be careful with impersonating accounts on other instances.
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