-------- Original message --------
From: John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
Date: 15/06/2014 08:19 (GMT+00:00)
To: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Secret management


We have four sets of cleartext passwords (http & proxy & db), and secrets such as various API keys and mw cookies and edit tokens.

The passwords are stored in two files in clear text (user-config.py and. passwd). Other secrets are in cached api files, etc.

I would like to introduce an optional dependency on a library to manage (some of?) these secrets. The current secret storage would continue to work correctly.

The keyring package is the obvious candidate. Any objections or improvements on that?

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John Vandenberg