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Keyrings cryptographically secure your password in a way that would generally be more secure (although not perfect). It would require a master password, shared amongst all the applications on your computer, to get at your passwords.

Pidgin does not currently support storing passwords in keyrings; currently you must either store passwords unencrypted or not at all.

Status

There was a Google Summer of Code project that made progress in this direction, but the code was not merged into the main developer branch (im.pidgin.pidgin).

The GSoC branch has implementations for Freedesktop and KWallet.

See also

Specific keyrings

GNOME Keyring and KDE KSecretsService

Status: implemented but not integrated

These are the GNOME and KDE implementations of the ​Freedesktop Secret Service API, intended to provide a standard interface for Linux apps to store passwords and stuff.

Pidgin would need to connect to the DBus API to store and retrieve passwords. There are several libraries to do this, including ​libsecret and ​python-keyring.

KDE KWallet

Status: implemented but not integrated

Currently uses its own API, but there has been discussion about replacing it with KSecretsService using the standard API.

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