_SECRETCENSOR(8)

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💅 _SECRETCENSOR(8) — the "Executable programs" girlies

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for _SECRETCENSOR(8), which is genuinely one of those pages you only find when you go digging, and honestly? iconic. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ipsec__secretcensor — the internal routing that sanitizes files, no cap 🧚

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so here's the tea, _secretcensor isn't a command you just run yourself, bestie — it's called by ipsec barf 🩸 and what it does is process the /etc/ipsec.secrets file and strip out the private key components from it, literally before the contents get revealed. so like, the whole point is your secrets stay secret while the rest of the dump gets shown. it's giving backstage security guard energy, fr fr. 🔥

ngl the name sounds like a crime but it's the opposite of a crime, it's the anti-crime. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

this man page was written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project, over at https://www.freeswan.org/, by Michael Richardson. and the original program? that was Henry Spencer. legends only, honestly. 👑

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Paul Wouters — and the page literally says it's a placeholder to suppress warning, which is such a mood honestly. 😭

that's the whole page, bestie, go forth and keep those keys private 🦋

— from the libreswan girlies, dated 10/19/2026, on manual page _SECRETCENSOR(8) 💜

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