Conjur Blog Effective Secrets Management in DevOps: Towards a Trust-Forward Design

Trust has been important in computing systems since the first business practices were put into place. Modern double entry accounting was invented in Genoa, Italy in 1340 as an error-detection mechanism. Chinese seals, also known as chops, from 300 BCE were an early technical mechanism to codify and confer trust among business actors. Seeing the red square seal of a business associate meant that you could trust a document's veracity.