linux has "equivalent protected-storage APIs integrated throughout the desktop environment",KDE has kwallet[1],GNOME has libsecret[2] and lxqt has lxqt wallet[3

linux has "equivalent protected-storage APIs integrated throughout the desktop environment",KDE has kwallet[1],GNOME has libsecret[2] and lxqt has lxqt wallet[3].Firefox has an extension to store its passwords in KDE's kwallet[4] and GNOME's gnome-keyring/libsecret[5].Chrome has support for both wallets[6] all linux destributions ships with libsecret and that will be the API to target if anybody want to store sensitive information securely in a linux desktop session. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWallet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWallet [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/490518/ http://lwn.net/Articles/490518/ [3] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/lxqt_wallet https://github.com/mhogomchungu/lxqt_wallet [4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kde-wallet-password-integratio/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kde-wallet-pa... [5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/gnome-keyring-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/gnome-keyring... [6] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/r65mTFMrT9o http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/r65mTFM...