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diff --git a/security/gnome-keyring/DESCR b/security/gnome-keyring/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d7cc1cc23a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/gnome-keyring/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +gnome-keyring is a program that keeps passwords 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 enough 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. |