RandomKeygen is a free mobile-friendly tool that offers randomly generated keys and passwords you can use to secure any application, service or device. KEY RandomKeygen - The Secure Password & Keygen Generator. How is storing the secret key in a file any more secure than storing it directly in settings.py? If he can read settings.py, he probably can read djangosecretkey.txt. If the attacker has compromised your machine, can't they simply load the python interpreter with settings.py to print settings.SECRETKEY? Finally, would it be a bad practice. Sep 24, 2014  Running Django with a known SECRETKEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. I had the option of going online and generating a key but I thought it would be as handy to generate my own locally (connectivity being what it is in rural Ireland).

Simple Django application that adds a new command: Free microsoft office product key generator.

This will generate a new file secretkey.txt containing a random Django secretkey. In your production settings file, replace the hardcoded key by:

You can avoid hardcoding the path of the key by using:

Install

You can install this package from PyPi:

Then you will need to add it to the Django's INSTALLED_APPS setting:

You can now use

Generate Django Secret Key

Run this command once in your local environment, and every time you deploy your app (on the remote host), to make sure the file exists.