Lennart Poettering on Nostr: i.e in pretty much the same way you can securely parameterize a service with them, ...

i.e in pretty much the same way you can securely parameterize a service with them, you can also parameterize the whole system with them. Of course, it's ultimately the system's services that consume them, hence there's a propagation scheme in place: you can pass credentials into the system, and then selectively propagate these into individual services that they are supposed to be consumed in. And not just that you can actually propagate them further down the tree, …