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Secure storing of passwords and other secrets

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This module provides a way for securely storing passwords and other secrets.

It uses D-Bus Secret Service API that is supported by GNOME Keyring (>= 2.30) and KSecretsService.

The main classes provided are secretstorage.Item, representing a secret item (that has a label, a secret and some attributes) and secretstorage.Collection, a place items are stored in.

SecretStorage supports most of the functions provided by Secret Service, including creating and deleting items and collections, editing items, locking and unlocking collections (asynchronous unlocking is also supported).

The documentation can be found on pythonhosted.org.

Building the module

SecretStorage requires these packages to work:

To build SecretStorage, use this command:

python3 setup.py build

If you have Sphinx installed, you can also build the documentation:

python3 setup.py build_sphinx

Get the code

SecretStorage is available under BSD license. The source code can be found on GitHub.

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