diff --git a/services/tokenTools/tokenTools.go b/services/tokenTools/tokenTools.go
index ae60e14..aa44e6b 100644
--- a/services/tokenTools/tokenTools.go
+++ b/services/tokenTools/tokenTools.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package tokenTools
 
 import (
 	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/base64"
 	"fmt"
 
 	jwt "github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go"
@@ -20,7 +21,9 @@ func GenerateSecret() []byte {
 // InitJWTService generate the secret to verify JWTs and store it in memory
 func InitTokenToolsService() {
 	hmacSecret = GenerateSecret()
-	fmt.Println("InitJWTService", hmacSecret)
+	encodedSecret := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(hmacSecret)
+	fmt.Println("InitJWTService", encodedSecret)
+
 	// TODO: This needs to be replaced with reading rsa keys, there needs to be a automatic generation of these if they do not exist
 
 }