The Credential models the customers' credentials like PIN, password etc. Credentials are stored secure: The value of getCredential() is stored as the concatenation of the customer ID, the pipe character ('|') and the secret (PIN, password) - encrpyted with the SHA algorithm and Base64 encoding as described here.
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