I have a hard time understanding the benefits of the keyring (e.g. GNOME keyring). I get the convenience parts - I don’t have to enter password for something every time I want to use it (e.g. mounted encrypted drive) and I don’t have to create a secret for some background stuff (applications keys). But the problem is, if I understand it correctly, that every application has the same access to my keyring, so, in theory, a malicious application can just read my Signal key and they can just read all my Signal messages right? Is there a point, then, in encrypting e.g. local database (like Signal) if the key to that database is readily available anyway? Any input is welcome. thanks!

  • alastel@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    If you’re using flatpaks and apps are not configured to skip sandboxing, each app get their own keyring and can’t access others’.

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      7 hours ago

      Interesting, and if they are configured to skip sandboxing I could still change it in flatseal right?