Funny, another Darren noted this too, and seems to be suggesting the use of something already available, called gnome-keyring:
http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/gaim_password_storage_insecure I don't know if that would be a general enough answer for things such as NWAM, but I don't see that it shouldn't be an answer (or part of one) for most desktop stuff. This message posted from opensolaris.org
