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Secrets
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During Airflow operation, variables or configurations are used that contain particularly sensitive information.
This guide provides ways to protect this data.

The following are particularly protected:

* Variables. See the :ref:`Variables Concepts <concepts:variables>` documentation for more information.
* Connections. See the :ref:`Connections Concepts <concepts-connections>` documentation for more information.


.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    fernet
    secrets-backend/index