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by justinschuh 4025 days ago
The obfuscation isn't really intentional IIRC. It's an artifact of the assumption that a proper base credential will be available from either libsecret, Gnome Keyring, or KDE Wallet. The fixed key is just a placeholder that gets used when none of those secure mechanisms is installed on the system. Although, that file has a number of outdated comments, which add to the confusion.