What is brutus-keyring?

b-k is a very small and simple keyring daemon with a CORBA API. It is build upon libgcrypt to ensure a well maintained and stable encryption backend.

Why brutus-keyring?

I wrote b-k while struggling with gnome-keyring. gnome-keyring is an excellent keyring application, but there is very little documentation and the API is rather complicated. After having trouble ensuring that gnome-keyring was up and running on all distributions that is support by another application of mine (evolution-brutus) I decided to write a replacement that is Good Enough (tm) for my needs.

This ended up being a much simpler but generically useful keyring daemon. It doesn't do more than I need it to, but it can be used by any application that can live with symmetric encryption and doesn't require the advanced features of gnome-keyring.

Status

There are no known bugs in b-k and it does what I need it to do.