GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as usernames,[2] passwords,[2] and keys, together with a small amount of relevant metadata.

The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home directory.

[3] As of 2009, GNOME Keyring was part of the desktop environment in the operating system OpenSolaris.

[2] GNOME Keyring is implemented as a daemon and uses the process name gnome-keyring-daemon.

[5] On systems where GNOME Keyring is present, software written in Vala can use it to store and retrieve passwords.