Keychain Services Secure Notes

Question

The documentation for the Keychain Services API leaves a bit to be desired. One thing that I can\'t seem to locate are details on accessing the Secure Notes that the Keycha

Answer 1

I figured out that you can pull the data using the security command line tool. Secure notes are stored as generic passwords with the following characteristics:

class: "genp" - this is the same as a generic password

type="note" - you can use this to identify secure notes specifically when searching (using the -C flag).

desc="secure note" - I don't know that you can search based on this field but it definitely identifies the item as a secure note

0x00000007 = "Note name" - I don't know if you can get this via the API but you can definitely get it from the command line tool

acct= - This seems to be a common characteristic of secure notes

Use the command security dump-keychain to find all kinds of useful info about the keychain items.