Passwords, stored in Gnome Keyring and KWallet

[Michael Albinus]

Hi,

the GNOME Keyring and KDE Wallet developers have agreed a common API,
called Secret Services, to access their password repositories. This API
is D-Bus based, see
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec>.

I have written a small package, secrets.el, which uses this API to read
and write passwords. It is tested with GNOME Keyring 2.29.90; a public
KWallet implementation is not available yet. I intend to use it in
Tramp; it will also be proposed to be added to GNU Emacs after the 23.2
release. It might also be applicable in XEmacs, once D-Bus support has
been added there.

However, it might be useful to apply this package somewhere else as
well. One idea is to integrate it into auth-sources.el, as configurable
alternative to the ~/authinfo.gpg password store.

What do people think?

Best regards, Michael.