recording and retrieving "secrets" into gpg files

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Wed Sep 28 15:25:14 CEST 2016


On 28/09/16 12:44, Arbiel (gmx) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Seahorse (distributed within Ubuntu) allows for the storing and
> retrieving of "secrets", as passwords, into what I understand to be
> gpg keyrings, or at the least, files.

Seahorse stores passwords in the Gnome keyring, which is not related to
PGP -- it uses symmetric encryption based on an iterative password
hash. Try the docs for "gnome-keyring"?

A

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