Move off of Keytar #185677
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authentication
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engineering
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With node-keytar now archived and unmaintained, we need a path forward for securely storing secrets and additionally, reflect the fact that we do not need to follow the shape of keytar anymore.
On Desktop, we will take advantage of Electron's safeStorage API. We will also get rid of
vscode-encrypt
because it would be providing no benefit in this new world.Additionally, we will remove the KeytarShim that has been in the product. This was the solution to secrets before the SecretStorage API.
Outlined are the steps to get this done:
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