Lockbox vs KeychainAccess

Lockbox

Objective-C utility class for storing data securely in the key chain. (by granoff)

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KeychainAccess

Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain that works on iOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS. (by kishikawakatsumi)

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Lockbox		KeychainAccess
	Project
-	Mentions	8
850	Stars	7,788
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	4.5
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Objective-C	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Lockbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lockbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

KeychainAccess

Posts with mentions or reviews of KeychainAccess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.

How can I share data from one View Model to another?
1 project | /r/SwiftUI | 31 Mar 2023
How to store & retrieve from the Keychain without authentication?
1 project | /r/swift | 4 Jan 2023

I normally don‘t use third party libraries if I can avoid it… but using keychain is such a pain that I always use KeychainAccess (https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/KeychainAccess).
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

KeychainAccess - Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain. Language: Swift.
What are the most underrated third party libraries for Native iOS?
12 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 23 Oct 2021
Basic KeyChain Interaction, wrapper needed or own implementation?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 10 Oct 2021

I use KeychainAccess. It's pretty simple and straightforward to use. The good thing about using a third-party wrapper is that it'd take care of some edge cases and quirks that I may not have run into yet but someone else might have.
[TECH] Unity で iOS/Android アプリの設定値をセキュアに扱う方法 🔑
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2021
Is there a best practice for hiding API keys?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 31 Jul 2021

However, if you store secrets on the device, you must use Keychain to securely store them. Do not just store them in a text file or something.
Devs could resort to workarounds to avoid iOS 14 anti-tracking feature
1 project | /r/apple | 7 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lockbox and KeychainAccess you can also consider the following projects:

Swift-Sodium - Safe and easy to use crypto for iOS and macOS

keychain-swift - Helper functions for saving text in Keychain securely for iOS, OS X, tvOS and watchOS.

Locksmith - A powerful, protocol-oriented library for working with the keychain in Swift.

SwiftKeychainWrapper - A simple wrapper for the iOS Keychain to allow you to use it in a similar fashion to User Defaults. Written in Swift.

Valet - Valet lets you securely store data in the iOS, tvOS, or macOS Keychain without knowing a thing about how the Keychain works. It’s easy. We promise.

CommonCrypto.swift - :trident: CommonCrypto in Swift, and more

🗄 Vault

SSKeychain

CryptoSwift - CryptoSwift is a growing collection of standard and secure cryptographic algorithms implemented in Swift