Implement kSecAttrGeneric to encode additional credential metadata #113
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This patch adds the `kSecAttrGeneric` key so that credentials can store additional publicly available metadata on kSecClassGenericPassword credentials. The caller can add any generic metadata they'd like to store as long as it does not exceed the size of math.MaxUint32. This allows for a wider variety of use cases where many secrets are fetched from the keychain without fetching the underlying secret. Additional filtering rules could apply on the fetch secrets based on the metadata. More information about `kSecAttrGeneric` can be found here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/ksecattrgeneric Signed-off-by: Alano Terblanche <18033717+Benehiko@users.noreply.github.com>
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maybe there's a more efficient way of doing this?
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Signed-off-by: Alano Terblanche <18033717+Benehiko@users.noreply.github.com>
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This patch adds the
kSecAttrGenerickey so that credentials can store additional publicly available metadata on kSecClassGenericPassword credentials. The caller can add any generic metadata they'd like to store as long as it does not exceed the size of math.MaxUint32.This allows for a wider variety of use cases where many secrets are fetched from the keychain without fetching the underlying secret. Additional filtering rules could apply on the fetch secrets based on the metadata.
More information about
kSecAttrGenericcan be found here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/ksecattrgeneric