SIL.PasswordStore 0.1.0-beta0023

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.NET 10.0 .NET Standard 2.0 .NET Framework 4.6.2

This is a prerelease version of SIL.PasswordStore.

dotnet add package SIL.PasswordStore --version 0.1.0-beta0023

NuGet\Install-Package SIL.PasswordStore -Version 0.1.0-beta0023

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="SIL.PasswordStore" Version="0.1.0-beta0023" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

<PackageVersion Include="SIL.PasswordStore" Version="0.1.0-beta0023" />
                    

                            Directory.Packages.props

<PackageReference Include="SIL.PasswordStore" />
                    

                            Project file

For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.

paket add SIL.PasswordStore --version 0.1.0-beta0023

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

#r "nuget: SIL.PasswordStore, 0.1.0-beta0023"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

#:package SIL.PasswordStore@0.1.0-beta0023

#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.

#addin nuget:?package=SIL.PasswordStore&version=0.1.0-beta0023&prerelease
                    

                            Install as a Cake Addin

#tool nuget:?package=SIL.PasswordStore&version=0.1.0-beta0023&prerelease
                    

                            Install as a Cake Tool

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

Cross-platform password store

SIL.PasswordStore implements a cross-platform keyring for Windows and Linux that allows to securely store passwords and other secrets. It uses the native libraries on each platform (libsecret-1 on Linux, WinCred on Windows).

When to use

Do NOT use this library if you're implementing a service and need to authenticate your users. Instead store a salt and a hash of the password.
However, if you're implementing a tool that makes use of other services like GitHub or NuGet and you want to cache the password or token so that the user doesn't have to type the password each time he uses the tool, then this library might be for you.

Usage

Very easy. service should identify the application, then simply call one of the methods:

PasswordStore.SetPassword(service, user, password);
password = PasswordStore.GetPassword(service, user);
PasswordStore.DeletePassword(service, user);

Similar projects

There are few other projects that implement cross-platform keyring/password storage. If you know of others let me know.

go-keyring - similar project which gave the inspiration to this implementation. Implemented in Go.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net5.0 was computed. net5.0-windows was computed. net6.0 was computed. net6.0-android was computed. net6.0-ios was computed. net6.0-maccatalyst was computed. net6.0-macos was computed. net6.0-tvos was computed. net6.0-windows was computed. net7.0 was computed. net7.0-android was computed. net7.0-ios was computed. net7.0-maccatalyst was computed. net7.0-macos was computed. net7.0-tvos was computed. net7.0-windows was computed. net8.0 was computed. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 was computed. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed.
.NET Core	netcoreapp2.0 was computed. netcoreapp2.1 was computed. netcoreapp2.2 was computed. netcoreapp3.0 was computed. netcoreapp3.1 was computed.
.NET Standard	netstandard2.0 is compatible. netstandard2.1 was computed.
.NET Framework	net461 was computed. net462 is compatible. net463 was computed. net47 was computed. net471 was computed. net472 was computed. net48 was computed. net481 was computed.
MonoAndroid	monoandroid was computed.
MonoMac	monomac was computed.
MonoTouch	monotouch was computed.
Tizen	tizen40 was computed. tizen60 was computed.
Xamarin.iOS	xamarinios was computed.
Xamarin.Mac	xamarinmac was computed.
Xamarin.TVOS	xamarintvos was computed.
Xamarin.WatchOS	xamarinwatchos was computed.

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

.NETFramework 4.6.2
- No dependencies.
.NETStandard 2.0
- No dependencies.
net10.0
- No dependencies.

NuGet packages

This package is not used by any NuGet packages.

GitHub repositories

This package is not used by any popular GitHub repositories.

Version	Downloads	Last Updated
0.1.0-beta0023	60	8/21/2026
0.1.0-beta0020	61	8/19/2026
0.1.0-beta0016	558	8/9/2022
0.1.0-beta0015	247	8/9/2022

Removed:
- removed net461 and net6.0 build targets

Added:
- Initial release
- build for .NET 10.0 and net462

Changed:
- on Windows passwords are now stored without terminating nulls.
Earlier versions of the library wrote the terminating null plus
an incorrect blob length.
- on Windows an empty password now returns an empty string instead
of `null` (as it did previously). This now matches the behavior
on the other platforms. `null` is returned if the credentials
can't be found.

See full changelog at https://github.com/sillsdev/SIL.PasswordStore/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md