diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
index 1841f63..538a18f 100644
--- a/.hgignore
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ syntax: glob
 *.db3
 *~
 .directory
-
+.secret.txt
diff --git a/pyweb/gen_secret_key.sh b/pyweb/gen_secret_key.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index dca99e8..0000000
--- a/pyweb/gen_secret_key.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-#  Update settings.py with an automatically generated Secret Key.
-#
-#  Copyright © 2009-2010, Michael "Svedrin" Ziegler <diese-addy@funzt-halt.net>
-#
-#  Mumble-Django is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-
-HASHSCRIPT='
-from hashlib import sha1;
-import sys;
-print sha1( sys.stdin.read() ).hexdigest();'
-
-KEY=` dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1 2>/dev/null | python -c "$HASHSCRIPT" `
-SECKEY="SECRET_KEY = '$KEY'"
-
-sed -i "s/^SECRET_KEY.*/${SECKEY}/" settings.py
diff --git a/pyweb/settings.py b/pyweb/settings.py
index 1ad2a1a..abb75be 100644
--- a/pyweb/settings.py
+++ b/pyweb/settings.py
@@ -145,8 +145,25 @@ ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = MUMBLE_DJANGO_URL+'media/'
 LOGIN_URL = MUMBLE_DJANGO_URL + 'accounts/login';
 LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = MUMBLE_DJANGO_URL + 'accounts/profile';
 
-# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
-SECRET_KEY = 'u-mp185msk#z4%s(do2^5405)y5d!9adbn92)apu_p^qvqh10v'
+
+# Automatically generate a .secret.txt file containing the SECRET_KEY.
+# Shamelessly stolen from ByteFlow: <http://www.byteflow.su>
+try:
+	SECRET_KEY
+except NameError:
+	SECRET_FILE = join(MUMBLE_DJANGO_ROOT, '.secret.txt')
+	try:
+		SECRET_KEY = open(SECRET_FILE).read().strip()
+	except IOError:
+		try:
+			from random import choice
+			SECRET_KEY = ''.join([choice('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!@#$%^&*(-_=+)') for i in range(50)])
+			secret = file(SECRET_FILE, 'w')
+			secret.write(SECRET_KEY)
+			secret.close()
+		except IOError:
+			Exception('Please create a %s file with random characters to generate your secret key!' % SECRET_FILE)
+
 
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (