# API/Web Service Encoded Variables

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/api-web-service-encoded-variables/67658>\
**Category:** Web Testing\
**Tags:** katalon-studio\
**Created:** [August 4, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/api-web-service-encoded-variables/67658 "2022-08-04T20:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdearest07](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/gdearest07/32/22419_2.png) [@gdearest07](https://forum.katalon.com/u/gdearest07)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/api-web-service-encoded-variables/67658/5 "2022-08-09T17:04:57Z")

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@em817m , I apologize for writing in your topic w/o having any solution. I’m just wondering is it the right aproach to have an encripted security key stored in Katalon Project? Whatever is encrypted can de decripted. Woudn’t it be safer to store a security key in some environment variable?

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