Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps
Hey HN, I've been working on Hansel [1] (an encrypted personal data store you can query with agents), and there wasn't a good way to use the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain. Electron's safeStorage [2] uses the legacy file-based keychain, which allows other apps/agents to query it with the `security` CLI. Not great when you have a dozen agents running in the background! The Data Protection Keychain is nice because it limits access via code-signing access groups and lets you set access rules like Touch ID and/or password. 1: https://hansel.so/ 2. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/safe-storage
Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
hankbond
Useful but kind of defeats electron's primary purpose of being cross platform.
clem_rw
The security CLI being able to read safeStorage entries is a real problem with agents running everywhere. Code-signing access groups are a much better boundary.