macOS Data Protection Keychain for Electron Apps: Securing AI Agent Credentials
Electron’s safeStorage is not strong enough to protect the API keys your AI agent app stores. To secure OpenAI, Anthropic, or JWT credentials against other processes and malicious code, use the macOS Data Protection Keychain directly with kSecUseDataProtectionKeychain: true, restrict access to a code-signing access group, and gate decryption behind Touch ID or a password. This guide walks through the threat model, the code-signing setup, and a working implementation that keeps a dozen backgrounded agents from reading each other’s secrets. ...