GNOME Keyring

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GNOME Keyring
Initial release2003
Stable release
42.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 23 May 2022; 22 months ago (23 May 2022)
Repository
Written in
Linux on the desktop
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring

GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as

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 another password.[3]

As of 2009, GNOME Keyring was part of the desktop environment in the operating system OpenSolaris.[2]

GNOME Keyring is implemented as a

daemon and uses the process
name gnome-keyring-daemon. Applications can store and request passwords by using the libsecret library which replaces the deprecated libgnome-keyring library.

GNOME Keyring is part of the

Geary uses GNOME Keyring to store passwords.[5]

In 2009, a statistical study of software packages in the Red Hat Linux distribution found that packages depending upon GNOME Keyring (and therefore integrated somewhat with the GNOME desktop environment) were less likely to be associated with software vulnerabilities than those with a dependency upon kdelibs (and therefore integrated somewhat with the KDE desktop environment).[6]

On systems where GNOME Keyring is present, software written in Vala can use it to store and retrieve passwords.[7] The GNOME Keyring Manager (gnome-keyring-manager) was the first user interface for the GNOME Keyring. As of GNOME 2.22, it is deprecated and replaced entirely with Seahorse.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "gnome-keyring 42.1". 23 May 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  2. ^
    ISBN 9781430218920
    .
  3. ^ "'gnome-keyring' tag wiki - Ask Ubuntu". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  4. ISBN 9780596551469
    .
  5. ISBN 9781484235287
    .
  6. ^ Neuhaus, Stephan; Zimmermann, Thomas (2009). "The Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat's Packages". USENIX.
  7. ISBN 9781849519434
    .
  8. ^ "GNOME 2.22 Release Notes".

External links

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