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 GNOME Keyring Manager 2.12.1 | |
| Initial release | 2003 |
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| Written in | C |
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| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wiki |
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GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such asusernames,[2]passwords,[2] andkeys, together with a small amount of relevantmetadata. The sensitive data isencrypted and stored in a keyringfile in the user'shome directory. The default keyring uses the loginpassword 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 systemOpenSolaris.[2]
GNOME Keyring is implemented as adaemon and uses theprocess namegnome-keyring-daemon. Applications can store and request passwords by using thelibsecretlibrary which replaces the deprecatedlibgnome-keyring library.
GNOME Keyring is part of theGNOME desktop. As of 2006, it integrated withNetworkManager to storeWEP passwords.[4]GNOME Web and the email clientGeary uses GNOME Keyring to store passwords.[5]
On systems where GNOME Keyring is present, software written inVala can use it to store and retrieve passwords.[6] 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 withSeahorse.[7]
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