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Credentials in security context are elements that prove your identity to a system, for example a username and password or a client-side certificate. It is usually used to describe elements supplied by the authenticating client, not when the server authenticates to the client or in mutual authentication schemes.

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How should an application store its credentials

An example of this is a Facebook app ID + secret, another one is MySQL credentials. … Neither will encryption of the stored credentials make any difference since the application will need access to the decryption key to be able to use the credentials at all. …
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