Announcing libsecret

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

libsecret is a library for storing and retrieving passwords and other 
secrets. It communicates with the "Secret Service" using DBus. 
gnome-keyring and ksecretservice are both implementations of a Secret 
Service.

libsecret replaces libgnome-keyring. libsecret works with multiple 
threads, is introspectable, and uses proper async model. It also has 
GDBus style proxy objects for various keyrings and items on the server.

As time permits I'll be coming around and posting patches for various 
projects that use libgnome-keyring to migrate them to libsecret.

libsecret is not all stable yet. It has a basic password storage and 
retrieval API, which is (hopefully) stable:

http://people.gnome.org/~stefw/libsecret-docs/simple.html

There's a more complete API for power users (like seahorse), which isn't 
stable:

http://people.gnome.org/~stefw/libsecret-docs/complete.html

The goal is to use this 3.4 cycle to figure out any further issues with 
the libsecret API, and fix them up. Hopefully we can have something 
stable by 3.6

Source: http://git.gnome.org/libsecret [1]
Documentation: http://people.gnome.org/~stefw/libsecret-docs/ [2]

Cheers,

Stef


[1] Code importation not yet completed, as I want to have the liberty to 
be able to make drastic changes for the next few weeks...

[2] Obviously this will go into developer.gnome.org