Show HN: Using macOS Data Protection Keychain for Electron Apps
What happened
A developer announced on Hacker News a solution to use the macOS Data Protection Keychain for Electron apps. The approach addresses the limitation that Electron's safeStorage uses a legacy file-based keychain, which can be queried by other apps and agents. The developer built this as part of Hansel, an encrypted personal data store.
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- announced a macOS Data Protection Keychain solution for Electron appsHacker News