How to disable GNOME Keyring on Linux desktop

Posted by xmodulo on Dec 22, 2015 5:15 PM EDT
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GNOME Keyring is a daemon program which caches user's secret keys, login credentials and certificates, and makes them available to other applications requesting them according to the GnuPG protocol. Essentially GNOME Keyring plays the same role as gpg-agent, but is active only within GUI desktop sessions. GNOME Keyring also implements SSH agent protocol for SSH authentication to replace ssh-agent.

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