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Re:Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:30AM (#46613342)
I'm surprised to see that very little is known about the Linux kernel keyring. With keyctl[0] you can put secrets scoped to process and ensure that they stay there only for a limited period of time. The tool isn't intuitive, but it's the way I put my 2FA and secrets in shell without bothering about leaking anything.

[0]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/keyctl.1.html

Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:53AM (#24244520)
Do you have any reference or source of this statement? Just asking out of curiosity.
Thank you for this great answer! This was helpful and went into the direction of my current developing work flow.

Do you use any type of visualization of your results in?