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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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Why is storing passwords in version control a bad idea?
My friend just asked me: "why is it actually that bad to put various passwords directly in program's source code, when we only store it in our private Git server?"
I gave him an answer that highlight …
