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Discussion on: Best practices to generate and store API keys using Node.js?

 
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Nagarjun Palavalli • Edited

KMS isn't meant just for generating unique API keys. You are better off using UUID and the Crypto library to do that. They are both battle tested to create unique keys. You would use KMS as a way to encrypt/decrypt your keys before storing them in your database as you should not store keys and secrets in plain text in the database.

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Got it, thanks.