GNOME Keyring
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A screenshot of GNOME Keyring Manager 2.12.1. | |
| Developer(s) | GNOME developers |
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| Stable release | 3.22.2 (9 November 2016[1]) [±] |
| Preview release | 3.23.2 (23 November 2016[2]) [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
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| License | GPL |
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GNOME Keyring is a daemon application designed to take care of the user's security credentials, such as user names and passwords. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home directory. The default keyring uses the login password for encryption, so users don't need to remember yet another password.
GNOME Keyring is implemented as a daemon and uses the process name gnome-keyring-daemon. Applications can store and request passwords by using the libgnome-keyring library.
GNOME Keyring is part of the GNOME desktop.
GNOME Keyring Manager
The GNOME Keyring Manager (gnome-keyring-manager) was a user interface for the GNOME Keyring. As of GNOME 2.22, it is deprecated and replaced entirely with Seahorse.[3]
See also
- KWallet, the KDE equivalent
- Apple Keychain
- KeePass
- NetworkManager
- LastPass
- Seahorse (software)
- Password Safe
- Linux on the desktop
References
- ↑ Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "GNOME 2.22 Release Notes".
External links
- GNOME Keyring Wikipage on wiki.gnome.org
- GNOME Keyring git on git.gnome.org
- Gnome Keyring Security Philosophy
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