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+These are the defaults used for secret identifiers and environment variables.
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+**Note**: If you enter identifiers for your secrets and then choose to use environment variables, the environment variable is the identifier entered and prepended with `DD_OP`. For example, if you entered `PASSWORD_1` for a password identifier, the environment variable for that password is `DD_OP_PASSWORD_1`.
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