the.com/stripe api keys
the password pair that lets your code move real money without asking permission twice.
means a matched set of secret and publishable credentials stripe issues so your server and website can talk to its payment system securely.
from stripe launched in 2011 selling developers on the idea that payments should be as easy as copy-pasting a code snippet, and the api key was that snippet's backbone.
two flavorspublishable key is public, secret key is not
test vs liveprefixed pk_test or sk_live, easy to confuse
github leaksthousands of exposed stripe keys found yearly in repos
instant powera leaked secret key can charge cards immediately
for instance
stripe cli — lets developers generate and rotate test keys locally since 2019
github secret scanning — auto-revokes exposed stripe keys within minutes as of 2020