Hi folks—I am trying to save a Snowflake private key passphrase in a PrefectSecret. The issue is, the Python cryptography library expects the passphrase for a rsa_key to be passed in bytes, and my secret has the value as a string. I cannot do

PrefectSecret('PRIVATE_KEY_PASS_PHRASE').encode()

because the encode method is on

str

and

PrefectSecret

returns a

PrefectSecret

. Anyone know how to do this?

I think you might be able to if you pass the secret to a task and then encode it there? Otherwise need to make your own version of PrefectSecret that does the encode.

THanks! What do you mean by "pass the secret to a task"?

@task(checkpoint=False)
def encode(x):
    return x.encode()

with Flow(...) as flow:
    key = PrefectSecret('PRIVATE_KEY_PASS_PHRASE')
    encoded = encode(key)
    Snowflake(..., encoded)

but note to turn off checkpointing so it doesnt get saved

Gotcha. How would I turn off checkpointing? Sorry...I'm very new to this 🙂

the

checkpoint=False

inside the task above