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Correct.

You wouldn't store plaintext passwords in a database, right? For the same reasons you don't want to store keys, tokens or authorization rules either.

Imagine ssh-agent but distributed with eventual consensus. You don't even need transactions, the data model is simple enough that you can get away with eventually consistent CRDT's.



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