• It provides simple Go types like secret.Text to encapsulate your secret. Example:

type Login struct {
    User string
    Password secret.Text
}

• The encapsulated secret remains inaccessible to operations like printing, logging, JSON serializtion etc. A (customizable) redact hint like ***** is returned instead.
• The only way to access the actual secret value is by asking explicitly via the .Value() method.
• See godev reference for usage examples.

• It is not a secret management service or your local password manager.
• It is not a Go client to facilitate communication with secret managers like Hashicorp Vault, AWS secret Manager etc. Checkout teller if that is what you are looking for.

go get github.com/rsjethani/secret/v2

NOTE: v1 is deprecated now.