gnome-keyring for Debian
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 Password caching
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GNOME keyring caches the passwords in memory, and when asked to, it will 
store them on disk (in .gnome2/keyrings). They are encrypted with the
AES128 cipher, using a master password as key.

 Login keyring
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If you use GDM, and libpam-gnome-keyring is installed, the GNOME keyring 
daemon is spawned directly at the time of authentication, and the 
keyring named "login" is unlocked. This keyring uses the authentication 
token as a master password.

Otherwise, it is launched by the session manager, and you will be asked 
for a password for the "Default" keyring.

If you change your authentication password (using passwd or 
gnome-about-me for example), the password for the login keyrign should 
be updated automatically.

 SSH and GPG agents
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The GNOME keyring includes the functionality of the SSH and GPG agents, 
and it can break some setups, especially if ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent 
is started by hand.

You can disable a specific component by removing the gnome-keyring-gpg 
and gnome-keyring-ssh elements from the startup applications. The 
interface depends on your session manager; for GNOME you can use 
gnome-session-properties. You can also simply edit 
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-*.desktop.