Why bother encrypting it? - anyone who has access to the phone can extract it anyway. Wasted effort I think!
BillK On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 13:59 -0700, f0rdprefect wrote: > Hi There, > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > > > So, one should store the PUK somehow obfuscated in the FR, for exmaple > > in a comment tag of some big HTML file from where you just grep it out > > in that moment :-) > > > > > > this sparked a completely different idea. So ok the freerunner and openmoko > will become a smartphone eventually. Why not store this kind of information > in an encrypted keychain? Let it be up to the user to do so, but there could > be something like the keychain I get on e.g. ubuntu desktop. Even more one > could also automate the input of the PIN after authorizing oneself via > passphrase. If the user would fail, still the PIN could be supplied (might > be easier in emergency situations), but a passphrase may or may not be a > much better way of authorization... > > So my question is, did somebody already come up with an idea like this, so I > could contribute or test? If not I would at least rephrase my idea a bit > and search for a place in the wiki where it fits... > > Cheers, > > Matthias -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
