GNOME Keyring now uses memory that is locked in physical RAM for storing passwords and secrets. Paging keys or passwords to disk is seriously uncool.
More info here on the OS requirements, behavior: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Memory There's also a simple API (see above) where applications that link to libgnome-keyring can use locked memory. If anyone has comments on the allocator [1], or has insight into problems that may arise on specific OSs, I'd like to hear from you. Cheers, Stef Walter [1] It's simple and slow allocator: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-keyring/trunk/common/gkr-secure-memory.c?view=markup _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
