Add pass to keyring

[Fabien-jrt]

I use pass to manage my credentials on GNU Linux. As far as I know it is widely spread on Linux distributions, even the headless ones.

It would be great if Keyring support it.
Let me know what you think.

[matthewsht]

https://github.com/nazarewk/keyring_pass

Works and I use it here. Its a simple/good wrapper around the pass command line program, thus its kinda slow. A full python implementation would be faster but I've not seen one yet.

[Fabien-jrt]

Thank you for your reply.
What do you mean by "full python implementation"? And could you explain why it would be faster?

[matthewsht]

pass is implemented in shell, calling tree, grep, and a few others, plus GPG itself for the encryption/decryption.

I think a python implementation that did all (or whatever is needed for keyring) of what pass does in native python would be faster, even if still calling out to GPG for the enc/decrypt step. The cost is the fork/exec of those other tools, plus the fact that keyring is asking for something fairly specific and likely some shortcuts can be taken. Forking/execing GPG is still a cost, but I'm not aware of python code that could do the equivalent crypto natively.

I look forward to being corrected by those better informed - I'd love a more performant keying pass backend. :)

[jaraco]

I'm so glad to hear the plugin framework is doing its job. Please let me know if there's any more that keyring should be considering here.

[mcepl]

Does anybody have an experience with http://github.com/notandy/pass_python_keyring , which seems to be the alternative implementation of the same?

[matthewsht]

None, but I'll try and test this - any experience yourself?

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[mcepl]

None, but I'll try and test this - any experience yourself?

Don’t bother, https://github.com/notandy/pass_python_keyring is quite broken.