Seahorse (officially branded as Passwords and Secrets) is a
GNOME
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front-end application for managing passwords,
PGP and
SSH keys
Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to:
Common uses
* Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed to encode or decode a message
* Key (instrument), a component of a musical instrument
* Key (lock), a device used to operate a lock
* ...
.
Seahorse integrates with a number of apps including
Nautilus file manager, Epiphany browser and
Evolution
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e-mail suite. It has
HKP and
LDAP
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key server support.
PGP support is implemented utilizing
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free-software replacement for Symantec's cryptographic software suite PGP. The software is compliant with the now obsoleted , the IETF standards-track specification of OpenPGP. Modern versions of PGP are ...
. Passwords are securely stored encrypted with the user's login password using
GNOME Keyring
GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as usernames, passwords, and keys, together with a small amount of relevant metadata. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's ...
. Seahorse is released as
free software
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under the
GPL-2.0-or-later license.
Developers
Responsibility for maintenance and development of Seahorse has changed hands several times during its lifetime:
* Niels De Graef (3.29.x - present)
* Daiki Ueno (3.29.x - present)
* Nate Nielsen (real name Stef Walter) (0.7.4 - present)
* Jacob Perkins (0.6.x - 0.7.3)
* Jose C. García Sogo (0.5.x)
* Jean Schurger
See also
*
List of password managers
The list below includes the names of notable of password managers with their Wikipedia articles.
Summary information
Features
See also
* Password manager
* Password fatigue
Password fatigue is the feeling experienced by many people wh ...
*
Password manager
A password manager is a software program to prevent password fatigue by Random password generator, automatically generating, Autofill, autofilling and storing Password, passwords. It can do this for Application software, local applications or web ...
*
Cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logy, -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of Adversary (cryptography), ...
*
GNOME Keyring
GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as usernames, passwords, and keys, together with a small amount of relevant metadata. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's ...
References
External links
Project home pageSeahorse repository on GNOME GitLab
Free password managers
Free software programmed in C
GNOME
OpenPGP
Software that uses Meson
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