Django Secret Key

Description

General

• Documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#std:setting-SECRET_KEY
• Summary: The Django secret key is used to provide cryptographic signing. This key is mostly used to sign session cookies. If one were to have this key, they would be able to modify the cookies sent by the application.

Revoke the secret

To revoke the key, a new secret needs to be generated. All sessions or cookies signed with the key will be invalided.

Details for Django Secret Key

• Family: token

• Category: other

• High recall: False

• Validity check available: False

• Analyzer available: False

• Minimum number of matches: 1

• Occurrences found for one million commits: 47.43

• Prefixed: False