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# Secrets Management

## Secret Variables

<Info>
  Bruno stores secrets on your local machine. The location depends on the OS.
  The secrets are encrypted using OS level encryption when available or falls back to AES256 encryption.
</Info>

In this approach, you can check the `secret` checkbox for any variable in your environment.
Bruno will manage your secrets internally and will not write them into the environment file.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/bruno-a6972042/bKrHa_JvyAqCslj1/images/screenshots/secret-variables/secret-variables.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=bKrHa_JvyAqCslj1&q=85&s=fc6029ee5b4ae6e588909f5a2e7e71c7" alt="secret variables" width="2468" height="872" data-path="images/screenshots/secret-variables/secret-variables.webp" />

Your environment file at `environments/local.bru` would look like

```bash filename="local.bru" theme={null}
vars:secret [
  baseUrl
]

```

And now you can safely check in your collection to source control without worrying about exposing your secrets.

When you export your collection as a file, Bruno will not export the secret variables.