securityd(1)

securityd1

Security context daemon for keychain and cryptographic operations

Usage

securityd

Overview

securityd maintains security contexts and arbitrates cryptographic operations. Access to keychain items is routed through securityd to enforce access controls and to keep private keys out of user process address space. All user interaction with securityd is mediated through the Security Agent.

This command is not intended to be invoked directly.

Releases

116 releases since Mac OS X 10.4; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10.4–10.4.11
  2. 10.5–10.14.6
  3. 10.15–26.5

History

securityd was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.0 (Cheetah) as the "Security Server" and was renamed in 10.4 (Tiger).

From Security 61901.120.67 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.