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A simple secret-keeping library for Rust.
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## About
**secrecy** is a *simple*, safe (i.e. `forbid(unsafe_code)` library which
provides wrapper types and traits for secret management in Rust, namely the
`Secret<T>` type for wrapping another value in a "secret cell" which attempts
to limit exposure (only available through a special `ExposeSecret` trait).
This helps to ensure secrets aren't accidentally copied, logged, or otherwise
exposed (as much as possible), and also ensures secrets are securely wiped
from memory when dropped.
## Minimum Supported Rust Version
- Rust **1.39**
## serde support
Optional `serde` support for parsing owned secret values is available, gated
under the `serde` cargo feature.
It uses the `Deserialize` and `DeserializeOwned` traits to implement
deserializing secret types which also impl these traits.
This doesn't guarantee `serde` (or code providing input to `serde`) won't
accidentally make additional copies of the secret, but does the best it can
with what it is given and tries to minimize risk of exposure as much as
possible.
## License
**secrecy** is distributed under the terms of either the MIT license
or the Apache License (Version 2.0), at your option.
See [LICENSE] (Apache License, Version 2.0) file in the `iqlusioninc/crates`
toplevel directory of this repository or [LICENSE-MIT] for details.
## Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally
submitted for inclusion in the work by you shall be dual licensed as above,
without any additional terms or conditions.
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