Thierry Moreau <[email protected]> writes:

>Client-side storage of long-term secrets can only be secured by dedicated
>client-side hardware. Your mileage may vary.

In a perfect world, yes.  However having an OS-provided, standardised
mechanism that gets things mostly right (Apple Keyring) is far, far better
than forcing every developer to invent their own one (Unix and to a lesser
extent Windows), which 90% will get wrong.

Peter.

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