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@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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 can locate it by an environment variable. + +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. + +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. |