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Re:Secret Management in Kubernetes by smarterclayton on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:35PM (#27733994)
I’m pretty sure the author just wasn’t as familiar with the topic as they should have been. Should have been caught during editing though.

As Joe notes, this was just how you most easily encode binary data in JSON. We did discuss that the encoding has a minor benefit to “over the shoulder reader” obscurity, but that wasn’t the goal.

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