KNIME Secrets manager - secret strings that need to be sent as plain text

Feedback & Ideas
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We have a few API’s that require us to send the API key or authorization header as plain text i.e. as an API key in the headers, or in the request body that we send.

It would be good to have functionality that allows us to retrieve secrets as plain text, but still have the secret encoded from plain view.

or at the very least, store it as encoded and then decode it in the workflow.

Our current work around is storing the key as the username.

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Agree - got my vote.

As a workaround I am using “File Secrets” - i.e. put the secret into a text file and the load it that way… at least I get the benefits of managing the secret centrally (so no need to touch the workflow if rotating secrets…), but yeah would be great to have a more secure way to handle this, although I realise there are technical challenges.