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Stable release 3.22.3 (9 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-09)) [±] Preview release 3.23.91 (1 March 2017; 7 days ago (2017-03-01)) [±] Type Password manager
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GNOME Keyring is a daemon application designed to take care of the user's security credentials, such as user names and passwords. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home directory. The default keyring uses the login password for encryption, so users don't need to remember yet another password.
GNOME Keyring is implemented as a daemon and uses the process name gnome-keyring-daemon. Applications can store and request passwords by using the libgnome-keyring library.
GNOME Keyring is part of the GNOME desktop.
GNOME Keyring Manager
The GNOME Keyring Manager (gnome-keyring-manager) was a user interface for the GNOME Keyring. As of GNOME 2.22, it is deprecated and replaced entirely with Seahorse.
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GNOME Keyring Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA