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Keeping secrets secure

Let GitHub do the hard work of ensuring that tokens, private keys, and other code secrets are not exposed in your repository.

Secret scanning is available as part of GitHub Advanced Security, which is free during the beta release. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

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