Your blog The concept of encrypted secrets evolved and acquired a better shape with each update of the Rails version. Recently, Rails 6.2 has brought in many such updates to the credentials feature. Let us analyze and discuss encrypted credentials further, how to read them, the advantages, and finally, how to manage a secret key base.
Evolution of Encrypted credentials
Encrypted secrets were introduced with Rails 5.1 in a view to bringing more security to the secrets handled. In this version, these were referred to as ‘ secrets ‘ and were referenced by