title: Storing authentication key for azure cloud
body: <p>I have written a server in python that recieves an authentication key from a client that can be used to access the azure cloud blob storage. I'm having difficulties finding an optimal way of storing this key.</p>
  
  <p>The key will last for quite some time so i'm considering just leaving it in the source code and compiling the program. But then the client can't ever change the key and the key would have to be changed from the source code and the program would have to be recompiled.</p>
  
  <p>So i'm wondering is there any better way of storing an authentication key locally on the machine?</p>