GNOME Keyring non-swappable memory

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

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