What's the purpose of Django setting ‘SECRET_KEY’?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7382...

Question links:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/re...

Answer 1 links:
[Django documentation for cryptographic signing]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable.../
[the Django documentation for the ‘SECRET_KEY’ setting]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable...
[Signing serialised data]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable...

Answer 2 links:
[According to the Django Documentation on ]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/re...

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