Re: gnome-keyring Interacting with from java

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Hi. I hope it's okay if I CC this to the gnome-keyring mailing list.

On 04/02/2010 11:52 AM, Dmitri Melnikov wrote:
> As I understand you are the main developer of the gnome-keyring project.
> I am currently working on a java project that requires a secure
> storage for it's passwords.
> I would like to ask if it's possible to talk with gnome-keyring over
> DBUS using this java library:
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-java/ ? If not, then how can it be done?

Yes, this can certainly be done. GNOME keyring uses the new Secret 
Service API, and this is usable from DBus directly. This is a new, 
mostly complete API and may have some rough edges or undocumented spots.

http://people.gnome.org/~stefw/secrets/html/

The benefit of using this DBus API is that (eventually) your application 
will also be able to talk to the various KDE password storage components 
(KWallet).

Additionally I believe (but have not verified) that the java-gnome has 
bindings for gnome-keyring:

http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/

> Also, I'm a bit confused about the difference between gnome-keyring
> and seahorse, it seems
> that they do the same thing but seahorse is used mainly for storing
> keys and cannot store passwords.

gnome-keyring is the daemon and backend infrastructure for password and 
key storage. Seahorse is the user interface for password and key management.

> I'm sorry to trouble you but the information on the internet about the
> subject is rather confusing.

No worries. Sorry for the delay in responding.

Cheers,

Stef