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Keychain access.app

Keychain Access.app is Mac OS X central application managing RSA keys and X.509 certificates. It allows to manage Apple Keychain mechanism.

After completing our tutorials, start:
Finder > Utilities > Keychain Access

This displays the available keychains. In our Smartcard quick starter guide, we initialized a smartcard with label "François Pérou". Notice that our smartcard "François Pérou" is visible in the keychain list:

Due to Apple Keychain Access, there are several limitations:

  • Smarcards / token keychains cannot be unlocked. Clicking on the Unlock button will results in nothing.
  • All these dialogs are read-only. You cannot use Apple Keychain Access to create and manage certificates. You should use OpenSC commands instead.

GOOZE registered apple-cdsa@lists.apple.com mailing list to ask for Apple Keychain Access source code access.

These limitations are only "graphical". Keychain really works with smartcards.