And less things to work with, so had to get creative to avoid diet fatigue (which is lethal) and only those creative enough people survived to create the people today.
Use an encryption library to decrypt the database in memory and encrypt it prior to writing it to disk. Assuming that you are not afraid of data loss due to power loss; that would be the most secure option and it works with the standard SQLite library
Or if you need more fault tolerance. The SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) will read and write database files encrypted using 128-bit or 256-bit AES.
It would be more secure if the credentials are in an in memory SQLite Database but that would require you to use something other than the shell. You would need to do a hardware key or have the user do a bootstrap password or have an API that uses a public key to authenticate the remote process passing the credentials
You can keep a low profile with the government and still be active in rallying support from non-targeted communities. If you are the group in danger, we will hide you and help keep you safe but we need you to ensure that we actively know about this so that we can protest for you.
I prefer simulated human intelligence type or SHIT for the people who like acronyms