Re: xdg-basedir for secrets

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On Friday, June 07, 2019 03:49:45 PM Jonas DOREL wrote:
> To me, secrets are fundamentally different from data (even confidential
> data) because they serve as a mean to authenticate you or authorize your
> utilisation of some services.

+1

> I guess the question is: should there be a dedicated folder for secrets
> or should they just be in XDG_DATA_HOME and manage differently by the
> applications (through your configuration) ?

From the peanut gallery, I think it should be somewhere other than 
XDG_DATA_HOME (and ...CONFIG), but probably not refer to it as ...SECRETS.
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