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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 Keychain [PDF] This document provides a conceptual overview of the Keychain Manager along with a complete description of the Keychain Manager 2.0 API, including its functions, data types, constants, and result codes. This PDF document also includes supplementary reference material and updated conceptual information unavailable in the Keychain Manager Reference (Preliminary) available in HTML below.   Keychain Manager Reference (Preliminary) This preliminary document is supplied as a convenience for web searching and browsing. Note, however, that the information in this document has been superseded by the PDF document cited above.