On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 00:16 +0000, Seth Buntin wrote: > This might be a stupid question (and maybe off topic) but what does the > secret key do and why is it there?
If we told you it wouldn't be secret, now would it? Really... people should think before asking these question... :-) More seriously, it is used to salt various strings (add a random bit of content to them) before we create hashes in various places. Ironically, I can't find anywhere we are actually using it as key for some reversible process -- so it's really SECRET_SALT (mmm.. SECRET_SAUCE...). Just grepping through the source tree for all occurrences of the string might give you an idea of where it's used. Best wishes, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
