Security-related question about a possible exposed credential

[Emma-NYL]

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

1. a real credential, or
2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.

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Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

	DefaultMinBootstrappers = 3

	// DefaultProject is the default project name used if none provided to the OpenDB function.
	DefaultProject = "starkDB-d****lt-project"

	// DefaultPinataAPIkey is the env variable for the pinata API.
	DefaultPinataAPIkey = "PINAT****I_KEY"

	// DefaultPinataSecretKey is the env variable for the pinata secret key.
	DefaultPinataSecretKey = "PINATA****RET_KEY"

	// DefaultStarkEnvVariable is the env variable starkDB looks for when told to use encryption.
	DefaultStarkEnvVariable = "STARK_****ASSWORD"

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma