Keychain wrapper for secure credential storage

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The Keychain securely stores sensitive data like passwords and tokens, encrypting them at the OS level. Direct Keychain APIs are verbose, so I create a wrapper class that simplifies common operations. The wrapper uses Security framework's SecItemAdd, SecItemCopyMatching, and SecItemDelete functions. I store strings by encoding to Data and specify kSecClassGenericPassword for credentials. Query dictionaries identify items by service and account names. The Keychain persists across app installs and backs up to iCloud Keychain. For access control, I set kSecAttrAccessible to restrict when data is available. This approach is far more secure than UserDefaults for authentication tokens.