> From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-list-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey (mono)
> 
> The goal is for an application to be able to securely store credentials (for
> example, credentials to access some online service. When you connect to a
> service, and click the checkbox "remember my password.")  Such as mac
> keychain, gnome keyring, and whatever windows uses.  "Secure" means the
> information is inaccessible at *least* by other users, encrypted on disk (with
> sufficient salting & stretching etc), and ideally, even inaccessible by other
> applications or corrupted versions of my application, etc.  But that seems
> likely too much to hope for.

Based on my reading today, it seems, it's unrealistic to expect cross-platform 
code.  To use mac keychain, or gnome keyring, you use specialized classes for 
that purpose, which are not the same as what you do in windows.
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