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The Keychain Manager provides user password management. You can use the Keychain Manager to access keychains and provide code signing services. The Keychain Manager provides a uniform way to handle passwords for multiple users, such as email or scheduling programs multiple databases, such as banking or insurance programs any situations in which a user must enter single or multiple passwords, such as when accessing websites with a browser You should use Keychain Manager if your application normally requires the user to enter a password for access to some document or service.

Implementing Security Features Using the Keychain Manager This document provides a conceptual overview of the Keychain Manager, detailed descriptions of how to take advantage of useful Keychain Manager features, and a complete description of the Keychain Manager 2.0 API, including its functions, data types, constants, and result codes.