GNOME Keyring

GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as usernames,[3] passwords,[3] and keys, together with a small amount of relevant metadata. 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.[4]

GNOME Keyring
GNOME Keyring Manager 2.12.1
Stable release3.36.4[1] (8 July 2020 (2020-07-08)) [±]
Preview release3.37.3[2] (7 July 2020 (2020-07-07)) [±]
Repository
Written inC
Type
LicenseGPLv2+
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring

As of 2009, GNOME Keyring was part of the desktop environment in the operating system OpenSolaris.[3]

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. As of 2006, it integrated with NetworkManager to store WEP passwords.[5] GNOME Web and the email client Geary uses GNOME Keyring to store passwords.[6]

In 2009, a statistical study of software packages in the Red Hat GNU/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).[7]

On systems where GNOME Keyring is present, software written in Vala can use it to store and retrieve passwords.[8]

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.[9]

See also

References
  1. Kitouni, Abderrahim (8 July 2020). "GNOME 3.36.4 Released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. Catanzaro, Michael (7 July 2020). "GNOME 3.37.3 released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. Foxwell, Harry; Tran, Hung (2009). Pro OpenSolaris: A New Open Source OS for Linux Developers and Administrators. Apress. p. 54.
  4. "'gnome-keyring' tag wiki - Ask Ubuntu". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. Oxer, Jonathan; Rankin, Kyle; Childers, Bill (2006). Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux. O'Reilly Media. p. 161.
  6. Jain, Manish (2018). Beginning Modern Unix: Learn to Live Comfortably in a Modern Unix Environment. Apress. p. 186.
  7. Neuhaus, Stephan; Zimmermann, Thomas (2009). "The Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat's Packages". USENIX.
  8. Anwari, Mohammad (2013). Gnome 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide. Packt Publishing Ltd.
  9. "GNOME 2.22 Release Notes".
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