Provides a basic API for managing private and public authentication credentials stored in file objects.

Package overview

The GNU Keyring file format is a proposed standard file format for the long-term storage of cryptographic data, such as private keys and digital certificates. This format is being designed with the following goals:

The following two diagrams show the important classes participating in this package. The first one showing the toplevel objects (files) , while the second shows the classes representinf their contents:

The latest draft copy of the GNU Keyring proposal is available from the GNU Crypto home page.