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@ -304,6 +304,18 @@ authentication code (MAC) like other implementations like GPG or
[sops](https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix) have, however this was left
out for simplicity in `age`.
### builtins.readFile anti-pattern
```nix
{
# Do not do this!
config.password = builtins.readFile config.age.secrets.secret1.path;
}
```
This can cause the cleartext to be placed into the world-readable Nix
store. Instead, have your services read the cleartext path at runtime.
## Acknowledgements
This project is based off of [sops-nix](https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix) created Mic92. Thank you to Mic92 for inspiration and advice.