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authortschilling <schillingt@better-simple.com>2021-12-13 21:47:03 -0600
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2022-02-01 11:12:24 +0100
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Fixed #30360 -- Added support for secret key rotation.
Thanks Florian Apolloner for the implementation idea. Co-authored-by: Andreas Pelme <andreas@pelme.se> Co-authored-by: Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es> Co-authored-by: Vuyisile Ndlovu <terrameijar@gmail.com>
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@@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ security protection of the web server, operating system and other components.
* Django does not throttle requests to authenticate users. To protect against
brute-force attacks against the authentication system, you may consider
deploying a Django plugin or web server module to throttle these requests.
-* Keep your :setting:`SECRET_KEY` a secret.
+* Keep your :setting:`SECRET_KEY`, and :setting:`SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS` if in
+ use, secret.
* It is a good idea to limit the accessibility of your caching system and
database using a firewall.
* Take a look at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) `Top 10