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- gnome-keyring is a program that keep password and other secrets for
- users. It is run as a damon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
- other applications locate it via an environment variable or a dbus.
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- The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
- password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
- disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
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- The library libgnome-keyring is used by applications to integrate with
- the gnome keyring system. However, at this point the library hasn't been
- tested and used enought to consider the API to be publically
- exposed. Therefore use of libgnome-keyring is at the moment limited to
- internal use in the gnome desktop. However, we hope that the
- gnome-keyring API will turn out useful and good, so that later it
- can be made public for any application to use.
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