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And while we're at it, I think saving two chars isn't going to do much to prevent global warming, and let's just use more readable SERVICE_{KEY} and SERVICE_PUB_{KEY} (as opposed to having scratch your head thinking "did I call it SRV, SVC, SRVC, SRVCE, ...?")

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I think OP meant to use the actual name of the service. For example FOOBARINC_{KEY}

I also think that it should look just a bit cryptic to make a person unsure if they can meddle with the string.

I meant as an abbreviation, like GitHub becomes ghp_XXXXXXXXX. But yeah anything is better than just random characters.

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