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24 alternatives to 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.…
Keychain-store is a secure storage library for signed Electron and Node.js applications on macOS that uses the modern Data Protection Keychain instead of the legacy file-based system. It restricts access through… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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keychains.dev▲177Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…
Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →
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Plasma Wallet▲272All-in-one Mobile App for your crypto, DeFi and NFTs
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Unphishable, zero-touch two-factor logins
2017 · krypt.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built KeyPub.sh to solve the problem of user verification for CLI applications. It's essentially OAuth for the terminal, but using SSH keys that developers and users already have. - No installation needed - works with existing SSH setup - Privacy-focused: users control what email info is shared - Simple email verification process - Free public service - Perfect for CLI app developers who don't want to build user verification Try it with: `$ ssh keypub.sh about` Source code: https://github.com/skariel/keypub
2024 · keypub.sh · its alternatives →
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Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication! - sekey/sekey
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free & OpenSource software for managing cold storage wallets
Apr 2026 · bitcoin-safe.org · its alternatives →
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Fast key-value DB in Go. Contribute to dgraph-io/badger development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Retriever (https://retriever.corgea.io/), an open-source research project to help users receive secrets and sensitive information without needing a server in the middle. It works by using Public-key cryptography to coordinate the message sharing between the two devices. Read more on why we built it here: https://retriever.corgea.io/why.html
2024 · retriever.corgea.io · its alternatives →
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Software sandbox for storage of sensitive information in memory. - awnumar/memguard
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Distributed password manager & only you can access
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The simple way to purchase and protect your cryptocurrency.
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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So the main purpose here is to show _a_ way that session-token theft can be mitigated. Clearly, this isn't NSA proof or something you'd use to secure a BL5 containment facility, but to prevent session-jacking; if feels like it could help a lot, and would be pretty quick and easy to roll out if an IDP wanted to implement it.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Casa App▲67Simplest, most secure app for buying and storing Bitcoin
2020 · casa.io · its alternatives →
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AxKeyStore▲31Hi HN, I built AxKeyStore, an open-source CLI tool for managing secrets that uses your own private GitHub repository as encrypted storage. The idea is simple: → All encryption happens locally. → Secrets are stored as encrypted blobs in your private repo. → GitHub is treated as untrusted storage. → No plaintext secrets ever leave your machine. → No plaintext secrets are stored on disk. Most secret managers either require a hosted backend, a self-hosted server, or trusting a SaaS provider. I wanted something that: → Requires zero infrastructure → Uses tooling developers already have → Keeps…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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IronDB is now ImmortalDB: https://github.com/gruns/ImmortalDB - gruns/irondb
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Crypt : Store and retrieve encrypted configuration parameters from etcd or consul
2014 · xordataexchange.github.io · its alternatives →
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Keeper is an embeddable secret store (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305 by default). Four security levels, audit chains, crash-safe rotation. Vault is overkill for most use cases. This is for when you ge paranoid about env and need encrypted local storage that doesn't suck. No security through obscurity, hence, It's still early, so now's the best time to find weird edge cases, race conditions, memory leaks, crypto misuse, anything that breaks. The README has a full security model breakdown if you want to get adversarial.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:package: Easily write and read user settings in Electron apps - electron-userland/electron-json-storage
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Encrypt your on-premise server disks and save the keys in the cloud securely - randomvariable/kms-cryptsetup
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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