Keychain
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Marc Deslauriers: GNOME Keyring...and is made available to applications via the libgnome-keyring library. It is similar to the Keychain in Mac OS X, and Protected Storage in Microsoft Windows. Traditionally, a desktop application that needed to remember a user's... In this article: Microsoft Windows, Keychain, Google search, Gnome Desktop, Sodoku, Mac OS X, and Google |
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PC World: Latest Technology News | September 02, 2009
Six Reasons Desktop E-mail Still Rules
...e-mail programs are still better than even the best webmail. Mail ties directly into Mac OS X applications such as Address Book, iCal, iChat, and Keychain. Similarly, most other desktop e-mail clients can also connect to other...
In this article: E-mail, Gmail, Mail, MobileMe, Mozilla Thunderbird, Ichat, Web-based, Microsoft Entourage, and ICal
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MacNN - The Macintosh News Network | July 15, 2009
Apps: CyberDuck, BravoTunes, KaraTunes
...browser licensed under the GPL. The application features integration with external editors, as well as support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain, and AppleScript. Features added to the new release...
In this article: Itunes, Cyberduck, Dock, AppleScript, Bonjour, MobileMe, Mac OS X 10.5, OS X 10.6, and Idisk
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PC World: Latest Technology News | February 01, 2009
How Secure Is Safari?
...third-party cookie writes by default, which is a nice privacy bonus. On Mac OS X systems, Safari's passwords are protected by Apple's Keychain password management system. But even on Windows, Safari's locally stored passwords are well...
In this article: Safari, Apple, Internet Explorer, Bonjour, JavaScript, Google Chrome, Software Update, Firefox, and Windows Vista
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Techcrunch | February 09, 2008
The New Safari Is Amazingly Quick, Firefox Watch Out
...like Transmit for all my FTP sites, and ecto for all my blogging accounts. Having just that one Keychain file to back up and sync to all my other Macs via Apple's . Mac is a god-send. It's these things, and all the other ties into the rich...
In this article: Safari, WebKit, Firefox, Computerworld, Apple, Iphone, Mac OS X, and JavaScript
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Wikipedia | June 03, 2009
Password fatigue
...to unlock an encrypted password database. Mac OS X has a Keychain feature that provides this functionality, and similar functionality is present in the GNOME and KDE open source desktops. Microsoft Windows does not have an explicit...
In this article: Fatigue, Microsoft Windows, KDE, Password Safe, KeePass, Gnome, and Mac OS X
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Wikipedia | August 14, 2009
Keyfile
...is periodically reviewed to ensure currency and compliance. Other applications allow users to merge multiple service-specific security settings into a single common store (for example, Apple Computer's Keychain in later Mac OS X versions).
In this article: Mac OS X and Apple Computer
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Camino
...with the Macintosh OS, it uses the Aqua user interface and integrates a number of Mac OS X services and features such as the Keychain for password management and Bonjour for scanning available bookmarks across your local network. Other...
In this article: Camino, Chimera, Mike Pinkerton, Netscape, Dave Hyatt, Cocoa, Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Safari, and Google
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Wikipedia | August 28, 2009
Keychain Access
Keychain Access Keychain Access is a Mac OS X application that allows the user to access the Apple Keychain and configure its contents, including passwords for Websites, Web forms , FTP servers , SSH accounts, network shares, wireless...
In this article: Keychain Access, Mac OS X, Apple Keychain, and Software Update
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Wikipedia | September 09, 2009
Keychain (Mac OS)
...part of Mac OS 9, and was included in Mac OS X in the first commercial versions. Third-party adoption of Keychain has been somewhat spotty to date. Although most Apple software uses it (notably Apple Mail and Safari ), and...
In this article: Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Apple Inc, Mac OS, E mail, Transmit, Subversion, Apple Mail, and Camino
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Description from Wikipedia:
Keychain is Apple Inc.'s password management system in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. It was introduced with Mac OS 8.6. A Keychain can contain various types of data: passwords (Websites, FTP servers, SSH accounts, network shares, wireless networks, groupware applications, encrypted disk images), private keys, certificates and secure notes. The default keychain file is the login keychain, typically opened on login by the user's login password (although the password for this keychain can instead be different from a user’s login password, adding security at the expense of some convenience). In Mac OS X, keychain files are stored in ~/Library/Keychains/, /Library/Keychains/, and /Network/Library/Keychains/.
It is free, open source software released under the terms of the APSL.
Keychains were initially developed for Apple's e-mail system, PowerTalk. Among its many features, PowerTalk used plug-ins that allowed mail to be retrieved from a wide variety of mail servers and online services. The keychain concept naturally "fell out" of this code, and was used in PowerTalk to manage all of a user's various login credentials for the various e-mail systems PowerTalk could connect to. Keychain placed these passwords in an encrypted file, and automatically returned them on command if the file was "opened" using a password.
- Name:
- Keychain
- Genre:
- System Utility
- Developed by:
- Apple, Inc.
- License Type:
- APSL
- OS:
- Mac OS X/9
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