Talk:Keychain (software)

Idea for Page Move
Apple officially refers to this as simply Keychain, not Apple Keychain. I vote to move this page to Keychain (Mac OS) or something similar. If nobody has any suggestions or objections I'll perform the move later. Lhasapso 22:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Upload question
I've uploaded Keychain.png to Wikimedia commons... how do I embed the image? I tried using the template from the Safari (web browser) page, replacing Safari with Keychain, but no luck... is it because Wikipedia needs an external link to Wikimedia images? Any help is appreciated.

File Locations
The article states that keychains are stored in: ~/Library/Keychains/, /Library/Keychains/, and /Network/Library/Keychains/ My server did not have a /Network/Library/Keychains/ folder, but it did have a /System/Library/Keychains/ folder. I would change it in the article, but don't know if it holds true in general. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.244.203.10 (talk) 14:45, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Broken Link
The link given in section Notes (http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/MacOSX_Leopard_Security_TB.pdf) appears to be broken! Last time checked, today October 28th, 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.46.208.88 (talk) 10:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems when Apple updated their site for Snow Leopard, the page got trashed. There's probably a replacement around there somewhere, but I couldn't find it. 97.120.80.78 (talk) 20:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

The page needs reorganising
I came across this page while trying to discover what a keychain is - only because my Macbook nags me for a password every time I login. But I had to read down to, and including, the history section to answer my question. Yes, at the start it says that a keychain "can contain various types of data" but that does not explain the purpose of the keychain. Surely that should be in the first sentence? I would edit it myself but that is better left to an expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tcp.free (talk • contribs) 00:54, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This page seems to be about the same program as Keychain Access. I propose that they be merged. Benjaminoakes (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2012(UTC)


 * If merging, it's probably best to merge Keychain Access into this article. Keychain is the underlying data structure; Keychain Access is simply a utility program to look at it. Silas S. Brown (talk) 09:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree with Silas above, as this is the main function page Access erm...accesses. In fact I just got on and did it, as there's been no further comment, including following June 2013 WWDC announcements:
 * Merged Keychain Access into this page first, under it's own section (setting-up redirect from there to it's exact section here).
 * Added new section about the newest version, iCloud Keychain, linking to the main iCloud page section (i.e. See also).
 * Renamed page to "Keychain (Apple)", as it's now cross-Apple-platforms, not OS X exclusively.
 * Made the best sense, AFAICS. Feel free to comment if something comes to mind. Jimthing (talk) 08:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation?
There's a linux utility with the same name. Arguably it doesn't come under "Keychain (Mac OS)", but should perhaps be mentioned.Diggory Hardy (talk) 14:11, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a 'criticism' section?
Because Apple's keychain has an extremely serious flaw, from CNN: "A crucial flaw found in Macs allows a malicious app to snatch the passwords from your Keychain -- or even directly from other apps." & "The researchers found that malicious software could slip into the Apple Keychain, delete old passwords, and wait for you to retype them in. When you do, it grabs them."

This shocked me ""The problem may have already been fixed if they would have taken it more seriously," Professor Wang said." and "There's another new attack that's pretty serious, and we didn't make it public."

The direct source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/18/technology/apple-keychain-passwords/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.181.44 (talk) 14:55, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Locations for keychains
As far as I can tell from searching the web, the login keychain (in ~/Library/Keychain) has as of MacOS 10.9 been split into two pieces, and the second piece resides not in the ~/Library/Keychain directory directly, but in a subdirectory thereof whose name is different for each computer; this is allegedly related to synchronising keychains via iCloud. Also notable is that the keychain-2.db file is not of the classical keychain format, but an SQLite database. 130.243.68.177 (talk) 15:49, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

OTP
Keychain supports OTP/TOTP/2FA but this is not mentioned in the article. I do not know when this was implemented, and I have limited knowledge about proper article editing. Thus I am writing this in the talk section so someone with better knowledge can properly implement this into the article.

2A01:563:361:9900:E8B1:530D:3B94:AA8C (talk) 19:19, 13 May 2022 (UTC)