Excellent. It seems that my sit-back-and-wait approach is slowly resulting in all the libraries required to rewrite my old (Python) password storage tool are being put into place :-) /M On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:38 AM, John Millikin wrote:

The GNOME Keyring is a service for securely storing per-user secret information, such as passwords and encryption keys, on the GNOME desktop. This library is a binding to the libgnome-keyring C library.

The API is still a bit too slave-ish to the original for my taste, some modules will be changing/merging in the next version. The innards are an absolute horror -- don't look too close if you're one of those people who faint at rampant unsafe casting.

That said, it works surprisingly well for a first-release FFI binding -- mostly due to the excellent design of libgnome-keyring and c2hs.

So if any Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris/etc users have needed secure password storage in Haskell, please try it out and let me know if you encounter any problems. Download: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gnome-keyring/ API docs (copy of original library docs): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1947532/gnome-keyring_0.1/index.html _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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jmillikin wrote:

The GNOME Keyring is a service for securely storing per-user secret information, such as passwords and encryption keys, on the GNOME desktop. This library is a binding to the libgnome-keyring C library.

The API is still a bit too slave-ish to the original for my taste, some modules will be changing/merging in the next version. The innards are an absolute horror -- don't look too close if you're one of those people who faint at rampant unsafe casting.

That said, it works surprisingly well for a first-release FFI binding -- mostly due to the excellent design of libgnome-keyring and c2hs.

So if any Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris/etc users have needed secure password storage in Haskell, please try it out and let me know if you encounter any problems. Download: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gnome-keyring/ API docs (copy of original library docs): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1947532/gnome-keyring_0.1/index.html

Thank you so much, John! Just yesterday I started learning c2hs and even succeeded in importing is_available and result_to_message from libgnome-keyring %) I will use your bindings now, they look much better than what I would come up with! I opened a ticket [1] at gtk2hs a month ago, I guess it can be closed now unless you are interested in integrating with gtk2hs. Despite the name, they have a bunch of GNOME bindings: gstreamer, gio, vfs, gconf, etc. Cheers, Alex [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1176 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE%3A-gnome-keyring-0.1-%28bindings-to-libgnome-... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.