# Credential Security Credential security protects passwords, PINs, recovery codes, security answers, and equivalent secrets throughout creation, storage, use, rotation, revocation, and recovery. ## Notebook evidence [[Scanned_20260730-1230#PDF Page 2|PDF page 2]], [[Scanned_20260730-1230#PDF Page 4|page 4]], [[Scanned_20260730-1230#PDF Page 10|page 10]], [[Scanned_20260730-1230#PDF Page 33|page 33]], and [[Scanned_20260730-1230#PDF Page 36|page 36]] place secrets beside ordinary inventory or contact material. All such values remain redacted. ## Archival rule The wiki may record that a credential existed and where it appeared; it must not reproduce, test, validate, or use the secret. Inventory and authentication should remain separate trust domains.