Brave Browser wants to use "System" keychain

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Description of the issue: Whenever I’m visiting a page with client-side TLS certificate, Brave wants to access the “System” keychain. It asks me for a password as shown on the picture. There is no “always allow” button.

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If I’m staying on a page, it’s going to request the “System” keychain access every 5 minutes or so, possibly stocking multiple such requests if I don’t respond in time. If I deny access, the page ends up as “Forbidden” and I have to restart the browser to visit it again.

In my MacOS keychain, I don’t see anything Brave related in the “System”. In “login”, I have “Brave Safe Storage” configured as:

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How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Visit a page with client-side TLS certificate
  2. A popup for “System” keychain access should show up every single time.

Expected result: Ones the access is granted, Brave should be able to stay on the page or revisit in the next couple of hours without nagging me for a password. Or, I shouldn’t see any pop ups at all.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.65.126 Chromium: 124.0.6367.118 (Official Build) (arm64)

Additional Information:
MacBook Pro M2, Sonoma 14.4.1

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I have noticed that you have configured the Keychain Brave Safe Storage to " Ask for Keychain password",
So please uncheck that.

If the problem still persists I would “Allow all applications to access this item”, that would hopefully disable the “Confirm before allowing access” requirement.

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Neither unchecking this option, nor allowing access to anyone solves the issue. I believe it is not this keychain entry that Brave tries to access. It’s within the “Login” keychain and Brave clearly lookups something from the “System”.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to check what exactly it wants to access.

Any other ideas?

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