Keychain

Enabling Keychain

Keychain-savvyness is enabled via an option in the General tab of Preferences. A new icon is drawn right to the User ID field of a Web Confidential card (see below). The icon tells you if the data of the current card is also present in the Keychain.

Importing from the Keychain

The Import Keychain command is listed under the File menu. It will import all Internet passwords from the Keychain not already in the password file.

Lock/Unlock the Keychain

You can Lock and Unlock the Keychain manually via the Edit menu. However, you can also let Web Confidential unlock the Keychain automatically. Take these steps:

Enable the option "Unlock Keychain At Open" in General/Preferences

Create a card in the "Miscellaneous" category with the name "Keychain"

Then enter your passphrase for the Keychain in the password field

When the password file is opened, the Keychain will be automatically unlocked.

Storing your encryption key (passphrase) in the Keychain

Storing your passpharase in the Keychain is the reverse of the previous paragraph. In this case, you will open your password file automatically with information from the Keychain.

If you store the passphrase for your password file in the Keychain, you will not be prompted for your passphrase when you want to open that password file (if the Keychain is open).

To enable this, you need to store your passphrase for the password file in the Keychain. You do that as follows:

After you press the Key button in the main card window, you will see a new option named Add to Keychain. If you enable this option, Web Confidential will store the passphrase in the Keychain after you dismiss the dialog.

Note: storing your passphrase in the Keychain will weaken your security to the 128-bit security that the Keychain offers.