Re: Emacs-23 release branch

[Michael Albinus]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> This is also a good point for people to chime in on their plans for
> Emacs 24.

Last year, 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 under work. Ted Zlatanov has volunteered to
integrate it into auth-sources.el as new backend, and I intend to use it
also in Tramp.

Are there objections to install it under lisp/net/secrets.el?

Best regards, Michael.