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// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0

// AES Encryption/Decryption with AES-256-GCM using random Initialization Vector + Salt
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// the encrypted datablock is base64 encoded for easy data exchange. 
// if you have the option to store data binary save consider to remove the encoding to reduce storage size
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// format of encrypted data - used by this example. not an official format
//
// +--------------------+-----------------------+----------------+----------------+

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App configuration in environment variables: for and against

For (some of these as per the 12 factor principles) 

1) they are are easy to change between deploys without changing any code

2) unlike config files, there is little chance of them being checked
into the code repo accidentally

3) unlike custom config files, or other config mechanisms such as Java