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Re:Environment Variables Considered Harmful for Your Secrets by olefoo on Friday January 02, 2015 @03:55PM (#8828498)
The main drawback of this ( and it's a minor drawback in the larger scheme of things ) is that this isn't a portable interface and isn't available on other POSIX-ish OS's. It looks like there are key agents available for Freebsd, OS X and Illumos though.

Thanks for pointing this out.

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