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📖What it means
A secret that proves who or what is calling — a key, a token, a password. Credentials live in the vault and are handed out, never pasted into code or a record where they would then be everywhere.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Token (model)
An auth credential proves identity; a model token is a unit of text billed by a vendor.
Not: Grant
A credential proves who you are; a grant says what you may do.
🗣️Also called
secretkeytoken (auth)