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by dunham 4449 days ago
OSX keychain runs as root. The user is prompted if an app asks for an entry in the keychain that it has not created the entry and has not explicitly been granted access to the entry

You need root to get at the keys otherwise. There is code to do it here: https://github.com/juuso/keychaindump

(This pulls the key wrapping key out of the process and then decrypts the keychain file directly.)