# Comparison of different key/secret managing schemes

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/comparison-of-different-key-secret-managing-schemes/12001
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**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/comparison-of-different-key-secret-managing-schemes/12001 "2021-03-17T22:24:38Z")
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### Author: ![chreekat](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/chreekat/32/14_2.png) [@chreekat](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/chreekat)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/comparison-of-different-key-secret-managing-schemes/12001/13 "2021-04-25T07:45:34Z")

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Hey, it’s great to have some discussion on this topic. 🙂

Can we be more ambitious and not just list all the options but actually pick some recommendations?

> [@lucc](#):
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> I did not yet take my time to fill in all the fields.

It might be good to really call out the brainstorming nature of that page and point to this thread. Otherwise the page might just contribute to the general noise and confusion that wikis create. We could instead aim to find some recommendations and add them to official documentation.

To continue the brainstorming, how many different operating methods do we actually need? How cells in the table represent useful scenarios?

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