Keyring (cryptography)
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In the cryptography
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

 sense, a keyring stores known encryption keys (and in some cases, passwords). For example, GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. GnuPG is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of OpenPGP...

makes use of keyrings.
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