Re: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?

[vm user]

On Jul 1, 12:20 pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> (sorry for the long delay)
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:18:15 -0700 (PDT) vm user <emacs_u...@hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> vu> does this mean that the keychain would be available to all emacs
> vu> application using passwords?  e.g. vm, tramp, epg...  that would
> vu> certainly be fantastic...
>
> Sure.  We (Michael Albinus, really) just added support for the Secrets
> API, which is for Linux only, and auth-source is set up to handle
> multiple source types already.
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:58:26 -0400 Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> BM> Here's the docuemntation of Apple's Keychain API:
>
> BM>http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Security/Referen...
>
> Unless there's a helper program or support inside Emacs (the latter is
> unlikely IMO) it's not possible to query this API from within Emacs.
>
> Ted

I am quite an ignorant in these things, but does the following help?
http://log.scifihifi.com/post/55837387/simple-iphone-keychain-code