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Weblog:   New (local) Mac OS X vulnerability : Passwords in Swap files
Subject:   What process is the password being swapped in?
Date:   2004-07-02 01:34:57
From:   recusant
One an application retrieves the password from the keychain, Apple cannot enforce that the key is used in a secure manner.


If these passwords are being swapped to disk by third party applications that are being granted the passwords, there's little Apple can do to prevent it.


Is KEYCHAIN swapping the passwords out, or programs getting the passwords through keychain?