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APP_KEY And You

Link – tighten.co

Jake Bathman, developer at Tigthen Co, wrote a new blogpost explaining what Laravel's APP_KEY environment variable is used for.

In this post, we'll talk about what APP_KEY does and doesn't do, some common misconceptions about its relationship to user password hashing, and the simple steps to changing your APP_KEY safely without losing access to your data.

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