GNOME Keyring
GNOME Keyring is a place where passwords (and soon encryption keys) for a user are stored in an encrypted file. The user enters a global password when first accessed.
How Gnome Keyring Secrets/Passwords Work
GNOME keyring has a password store which GNOME applications can access to store and find passwords and other sensitive data.
Non-pageable 'Secure' Memory
As of 2.19.3 gnome-keyring stores secrets and passwords in memory that is locked in physical RAM to prevent it from paging out to the swap file on the disk.
PAM Automatic Keyring Unlocking
As of 2.19.6 gnome-keyring supports automatically unlocking keyrings when the user logs into the machine.
SSH Agent
As of 2.21.3 gnome-keyring includes an SSH agent that uses X.509 and/or OpenSSH encryption keys.
Certificates and Encryption Keys
As of 2.21.3 gnome-keyring stores and manages certificates encryption keys. It contains a PKCS#11 module which allows other applications to retrieve and use the certificates and keys.
Configure applications to use gnome-keyring certificates and keys
Other Information
