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# SecItemAttr.descriptionItemAttr

Identifies the description attribute.

```
case descriptionItemAttr
```

## Discussion

You use this tag to set or get a string value that represents a user-visible string describing this particular kind of item, for example “disk image password”. Keychain strings should use UTF-8 encoding.

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