Retrieval of secure note contents in Keychain Access?

Hi,
A puzzling thing just occurred. I was checking a secure note in Keychain Access, and when I clicked "show note" to view the contents, I found it completely empty.
This is survivable, but very annoying.
Since I have time machine running backups, can I retrieve the secure note from my backup drive?
If so, where do I look, and what files do I look for?
I'm on a 2.4G macbook pro and running OS 10.6.4.
Thanks for the help.
J

Thanks Josh. I think you are confirming what I was afraid of: that it is not possible to search the contents of a secure note. The Keychain access Find is limited to names of keycain items.
Oh well, I suppose it's no great hardship to copy and paste the contents of my secure note into TextEdit for the timeof the search. And then to trash the pasted text immediately ... securely. Hmmm ... could be better.

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Hi,
I recently had a problem with 'Mail' which was solved by David Gimeno on the 'Mail & Address book' forum. However, it seems that it was caused by a different problem with my keychains. I cannot determine what the problem is, as I cannot run 'Keychain Access'. Whenever I try to start it, it crashes within a second.
I have tried reinstalling the recent 10.4.7 update (combo) several times, including first removing
/Library/Keychains/System.keychain
~/Library/Keychains/MicrosoftIntermediateCertificates
~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
and then performing the update. My system appears to be operating correctly, but I fear that this will lead to instabilities and I might lose data. I have attached the crash log below.
Any help/advice would be great!
Kieran
Date/Time: 2006-07-03 23:15:37.780 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8J2135)
Report Version: 4
Command: Keychain Access
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/MacOS/Keychain Access
Parent: WindowServer [91]
Version: 3.3.2 (27693)
Build Version: 16
Project Name: KeychainAccess
Source Version: 276930000
PID: 540
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000017
Thread 0 Crashed:
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3 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90b38d37 cxxabiv1::__class_type_info::__do_catch(std::typeinfo const*, void**, unsigned) const + 57
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8 com.apple.security 0x911620d7 Security::CssmError::throwMe(long) + 91
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28 com.apple.AppKit 0x933a5754 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 96
29 com.apple.Foundation 0x92726d35 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 447
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39 com.apple.keychainaccess 0x00002606 0x1000 + 5638
40 com.apple.keychainaccess 0x00013c2d 0x1000 + 76845
Thread 0 crashed with i386 Thread State:
eax: 0xb1d2a400 ebx: 0x90b3880d ecx:0xbfffeae0 edx: 0xffffffff
edi: 0x003cbb00 esi: 0xa119b6c0 ebp:0xbfffeaa8 esp: 0xbfffea90
ss: 0x0000002f efl: 0x00010297 eip:0x90b3953b cs: 0x00000027
ds: 0x0000002f es: 0x0000002f fs:0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
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Hi,
I recently had a problem with 'Mail' which was solved by David Gimeno on the 'Mail & Address book' forum. However, it seems that it was caused by a different problem with my keychains. I cannot determine what the problem is, as I cannot run 'Keychain Access'. Whenever I try to start it, it crashes within a second.
I have tried reinstalling the recent 10.4.7 update (combo) several times, including first removing
/Library/Keychains/System.keychain
~/Library/Keychains/MicrosoftIntermediateCertificates
~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
and then performing the update. My system appears to be operating correctly, but I fear that this will lead to instabilities and I might lose data. I have attached the crash log below.
Any help/advice would be great!
Kieran
Date/Time: 2006-07-03 23:15:37.780 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8J2135)
Report Version: 4
Command: Keychain Access
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/MacOS/Keychain Access
Parent: WindowServer [91]
Version: 3.3.2 (27693)
Build Version: 16
Project Name: KeychainAccess
Source Version: 276930000
PID: 540
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000017
Thread 0 Crashed:
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Thread 0 crashed with i386 Thread State:
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edi: 0x003cbb00 esi: 0xa119b6c0 ebp:0xbfffeaa8 esp: 0xbfffea90
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Model: MacBookPro1,1, BootROM MBP11.0044.B02, 2 processors, Intel Core Duo, 1.83 GHz, 1 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600, ATY,RadeonX1600, PCIe, 128 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/BANK 0, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM1/BANK 1, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x86), 0.1.24
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Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
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MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Keychain Security Password vs. Keychain Login Password

Hi,
Does anyone happen to know anything about the keychain SECURITY password? I know what my keychain LOGIN password is and have been able to change it. I don't remember setting up a keychain security password and I haven't been able to find information on how to change it or access it or even find out more about it.
Thanks,
Securitied Out

However under security, when I go in I can unlock it with my login password which is the same as my keychain login password.
I'm a bit confused. I see no security menu item within Keychain Access. Exactly what are you referencing? Additionally, under the Security prefPane in System Preferences, there are only two items requiring a password under the General tab.
But to access the network access information I have in it it won't allow me in when I use my login password.
Where are you trying to access this information? There's nothing in Keychain Access, that I can see, that deals with network access.
In the listing after date modified under the keychain heading what I see is System not login like Login file above. So I'm trying to find out what that is all about and just have no clue and am a bit frustrated.
Once, again, I have no idea exactly what you're trying to do or where you're doing it. You need to be more explicit and provide the steps and utilities/applications you're using.

Two System keychains in Keychain Access

Hi there
When I go into Keychain Access I see two 'system' keychains listed. I believe they are multiple references to the same keychain. Is this something I should worry about and might it affect system performance?
Many thanks
Paul Blake
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

it's still just one system keychain. you just opened it twice. this is quite harmless. if it really bothers you quit keychain access and delete the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.security.plist. then start keychain access and there will be just one system keychain there.

Insecurity of Keychain Access: "secure" notes visible during authentication

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm not keen on wading through 137 pages of discussions.
I recently discovered Keychain Access' ability to create "secure notes," and thought this would be a wonderful way to keep my serial numbers, bank accounts, and other sensitive information secure.
However, I just tried to actually decrypt this information for the first time, and was rather shocked. When you attempt to open a secure note, and select the "show note" checkbox that prompts the "Deny / Allow Once / Always Allow" dialog box, the dialog box contains the "secure" information from the note!
In my example, which you can see here (http://www.justinreese.com/media/images/secure_bbedit.png), the entire text of the note is included in the dialog, previous to any password authentication. Of course, because I'm reusing the login keychain, I understand that it's already been decrypted upon logging in; however, I was under the impression that using Keychain Access to store secure notes and other passwords offered a secondary level of protection, and that even if someone were able to compromise my system while I was logged in, at least that sensitive data would remain secure (the way a dedication application such as Wallet or Yojimbo would do it).
So... is this a bug, an oversight, or simply my own poor planning in using the login keychain to store secure information?
Thanks to all.
17" Powerbook G4/1.5Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Stock + 1GB of RAM
17" Powerbook G4/1.5Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Stock except 1.5GB of RAM

My suspicion is that when you created the note, in the "name" field, you used "paste" intending to paste "BBEdit 8 Registration". However, if the clipboard at the time had contained multiple lines, the "Name:" field would then contain the entire contents (Owner Name, Email Address, etc), although it might not be immediately apparent since the main "Keychain Access" window would only display the first line. However, when asking for authentication, the full "Name" is displayed. This scenario is easy enough to replicate.
The odd thing is that even if the "Name:" is subsequently edited to remove the extra lines, the "authentication dialogue" seems to continue to ask for authentication using the "old" name... it's probably being cached somewhere but I haven't been able to track it down.
So in this case, I would call this "user error" for putting "secure" info in an "insecure" field in the first place, but there is definitely some sort of bug / oversight / slopiness in that the authentication dialogue doesn't update - so in effect it is asking you to authenticate for one thing, when in reality it is authenticating something that might have a completely different name. That sort of thing might open up "spoofing" opportunities, but for a user's personal keychain, I would suspect that anyone that can get close enough to do something with it would have opportunities to do far worse. Still, it can't be a good thing...

Restore Keychain access secure note with time machine

So my secure note in keychain access got deleted somehow - what files do I need to restore from my time machine backup to restore it?
Thanks

Whitecity wrote:
So my secure note in keychain access got deleted somehow
click here for information.
basically, you open keychain access, then enter time machine, go back to a known good time, and hit restore.

Keychain Access: cannot add a new item: user name or passphrase not correct

When trying to add a new item to "Keychain Access", the application suddenly refused to do so. Error message:
Title: An error has occurred. Unable to add an item to the current keychain.
Message: The user name or passphrase you entered is not correct.
I never need a user name neither passphrase to store a new entry in the keychain.
Steps to resolve:
1. Restarting app: no good
2. Repair disk permissions: no improvement
3. Verify disk: no errors found
4. Verfify Keychain First Aid menu from with Keychain.app
Verification started
Checking keychain configuration for User Name (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/shortname
Checked login keychain
Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain may cause the keychain to be locked
Current values: lockOnSleep=no, autoLock=never
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/MicrosoftIntermediateCertificates
Verification completed
and a repair:
Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for User Name (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/shortname
Checked login keychain
Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain may cause the keychain to be locked
Current values: lockOnSleep=no, autoLock=never
Settings corrected on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/MicrosoftIntermediateCertificates
Problems successfully repaired
Repair completed
The First Aid Menu, option repair, solved this problem.
Hopefully by documenting this, this helps another one who experiences the same error, in resolving.

Daniel,
Go ahead and Apply this note , it will fix your issue.
Do you have a third column in AISUSER T.Code .
This issue is fixed in ST : SAPKITL426
Note 1140822 - SAP customer number for installation number &1 unknown
Thanks,
Uday

How can I acces Secure Notes from Keychain on my other Macs?

I have build up many Secure Notes in Keychain with important stuff and I'd like to be able to access these notes on my four Macs and other Apple devices. Is this possible? If not, maybe a poor alternative would be to create a secure .txt file and store it in iCloud? Any better ideas?

Put the photos you want to upload to your iPhone in an album in iPhoto. Connect the iPhone to the Mac and launch iTunes.
Click on your iPhone icon
and then on Photos
Next check Sync Photos and Selected albums. Find the album with the photos you want to upload and select it.
Lastly click on the Sync button.

Recovering secure notes from keychain

I recently had my 2011 Macbook Pro's logic board fail on me so I bought a new MacBook Pro and just finished restoring my old Time Machine Backup.
Much to my dismay, all of my secure notes (and maybe some of my website passwords) are nowhere to be found in the Keychain Access program. I have tried to restore my 'login(dot)keychain' from User/Library/Keychain on my TM backup, but the secure notes are still no where to be found. My secure notes are where I keep ALL of my passwords for everything and it is a major major inconvenience that I cannot access them.
Does anyone know what I can do?
(If it is of any use, in the Keychain folder in my TM backup there are several files named something like login keychain Sbx76tv)
Help is very much appreciated,
Ajay

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
ls -@Oaen L*/Keyc* | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.

Firefox hangs and will not allow me to access other programs running when I resize a pop up window, move a pop up window, accidentally right click flash content.

Firefox hangs and will not allow me to access other programs running when I resize a pop up window, move a pop up window, accidentally right click flash content.
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== Not sure when it statrted

Hi.
When this happens, please press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and see how much RAM and CPU Firefox is using. If they're sky high, then... Well, that kind of issues are, unfortunately, more common and the we'd like. Thankfully, 99% of the cases are very easy to solve. However, you do need to diagnose what your exact problem is. Do this:
#run Firefox in safe-mode to disable all extensions and plugins. If this fixes your issues, be them with RAM or CPU usage, then you know it's a problem with plugins or extensions. Proceed to number 2. If safe-mode doesn't fix the issues, then read bellow, after this list;
#update all extensions and plugins in your Firefox. If this doesn't solve the issues, proceed to the following number;
#disable all extensions and plugins in your Firefox (not running safe-mode). Being certain that, as in safe-mode, the problems you're having have gone away, enable one plugin at a time. You should be certain that you WANT that plugin to be enabled, so keep your overall number of plugins as low as possible. When you encounter the problems, you know you've found a problematic plugin, so disable it for good. Keep enabling all plugins (except problematic ones) until you've gone through them all.
#enable one extension at a time. Again, be certain that you WANT that extension to be enabled, so keep your overall number of extensions as low as possible. When you encounter the problems, you know you've found a problematic extension, so disable it for good. Keep enabling all your extensions (except problematic ones) until you've gone through them all;
#you're done! You've fixed your problems with problematic add-ons.
Ok, if disabling all extensions and plugins through safe-mode didn't work to bring Firefox's CPU and RAM usage to good levels, then you have different issue. The most likely scenario is that you have a third party software running on your computer that is messing with Firefox. Do as follows:
#do a virus/malware check on your computer. If this doesn't fix it, proceed;
#disable all software running in the background that you don't want to have running in the background (in windows, this is done by pressing WINDOWS+R in your keyboard, typing "msconfig" (without the commas) and pressing enter. Now, under the "Startup" tab, you can uncheck the software you don't want, and reboot your system for changes to take effect. If you're unsure of what software you want running, ask someone with more experience). If this doesn't fix you issues with Firefox, proceed;
#check your firewall/antivirus/security suite for enabled functions/features that you don't want and/or may be conflicting with Firefox. You'll find that these features are most likely tied to Internet Security features, such as link scanners or URL checkers and the like. If you're not sure they are conflicting with Firefox, simply try to disable to see whether or not that's true. As long as you don't browse the web with your antivirus completely off and your firewall completely turned off, there should be no problems. If this doesn't solve the issues, proceed to the following number;
#check your operating system security options, mainly advanced options that are not configured by default. While it's very unlikely that this may be the cause of the problem (after all, it's the last item on the list), it's remotely possible. If this doesn't do it, I'm out of ideas. Except make sure you've followed my instructions correctly.

HT204085 Can the secure notes be access on an iPhone in a similar way that they can on my MacBook?

I have been using Keychain on my MacBook to keep secure notes with login and password information on all the websites I frequently visit and have to login to. Is there a way to access these secure notes on my iPhone if I have enabled Keychain on it allowing it to be shared with my other devices?
CFDBattChief

There are, basically, two kinds of email account: IMAP and POP. What you want is an IMAP account. If you have a POP account, you may be able to access your messages through an IMAP server. Check with your mail service provider.

My computer continually asks me to enter my password for Keychain access. This problem is continuos and I am having trouble with eliminating it. I have changed my password through Security and my Accounts numerous times to no avail. Is there anythin

My computer continually asks me to enter my password for Keychain access. This problem is continuos and I am having trouble with eliminating it.
I have changed my password through Security and my Accounts numerous times to no avail.
Is there anything I can do other than Resetting the entire computer and re installing all of the software, apps, etc.etc.

Back up all data before proceeding.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select
          Change Settings for Keychain "login"
In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
          Keychain Access ▹ Preferences... ▹ First Aid
There are four checkboxes in the window that opens. Check all of them. if they're not already checked. Close the window.
Select
          Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.
If you use iCloud Keychain, open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm. Then re-check the box. Follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain on an additional device.

Keychain access application not working.

keychain not working, click on the generic app. icon and it simply pops up and closes. reloaded osx10.4.3, but no results. anyone have suggestions?
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Next step is to create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem remains. If not, then it's a problem with the original account. If so, then the problem's system-wide.
If the original account, you have two options: 1) try to find the corrupted file, maybe the com.apple.keychainaccess.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/. Move it to the desktop, log out and back in, relaunch Keychain Access. If that doesn't work, then check all the .plist files with something like Preferential Treatment. 2) reset your prefs in the new account and eventually delete the original.
If system-wide, then reinstalling the OS using the Archive & Install option, saving user and network settings, might be your only option, especially since reinstalling the combo update didn't fix the problem.

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