In case anyone is interested, a new 'secrets' DBus API has been brewing: Michael Leupold wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and me (KDE Wallet) started to draft > a > common D-BUS API for secret information storage. It's meant to make Keyring- > and KWallet-like daemons available under a common D-BUS interface and thus > increase interoperability between GNOME, KDE and other applications having > the > need to securely store passwords and other confidential information. > > We just finished a first rough draft of the specification. For gaining > widespread acceptance and use, we'd like to invite everyone interested to > join > the drafting process which will take place on our mailinglist [1]. This > encompasses people working on similar systems/daemons as well as application > developers interested in using such an API. > > The current draft is stored inside GNOME Keyring's git repository [2] and > generated using gtk-doc to generate the API documentation. The current > working > draft is available inside the freedesktop.org wiki [3]. If there's a need for > it we will move the spec to a repository where collaboration will be easier > and move the generation to docbook2html. > > Please note that the current D-BUS interface name is preliminary and not > settled upon. It will be decided once the new fd.o specification process has > been finalized. > > To give everyone interested the chance to join the mailinglist beforehand, > I'd > like to start the discussions on Wednesday, 15th of July. > > Please forward this mail to members of your communities who might be > interested in taking part in the drafting process. > > Regards, > Michael Leupold > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Authentication > [2] http://git.gnome.org:80/cgit/gnome-keyring/?h=dbus-api > [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec
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