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Dealing with secrets on a Linux desktop is quite a mess right now. E.g. for my SSH and GPG keys I use some concoction of gnome-keyring and gpg-agent, and I must
by williamvds 5y ago
Dealing with secrets on a Linux desktop is quite a mess right now. E.g. for my SSH and GPG keys I use some concoction of gnome-keyring and gpg-agent, and I must admit I don't really understand how it works.
Himitsu[0] is an interesting approach to a secrets manager. It apparently uses an "agent" to do authentication/whatever and passes on the resource to the application that requested it, meaning applications don't have to touch the secrets themselves.
[0] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu