Hello Chmouel, Friday, Friday, August 27, 1999, you wrote: CB> terrapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Thank you for your prompt reply. Your program has been updated in the Mandrake >> > "Cooker" release. and will be seeing a lot of use. It is being used for starting >> > up kpackage and linuxconf as desktop icons on the KDE user desktop as well as >> > kfm and konsole in the KDE menus. >> >> That sounds very good! The program is there for being used and if this >> happens, it's goal is fulfilled. >> >> I would like to make one suggestion though, before you are exposing it to >> the masses: security analyse the password caching feature. >> I spent a great deal of care in implementing this feature in a secure manner >> and I really think it is rather secure. But, as I am only human, I could >> have overlooked something. >> I think this would be a wise thing to do. CB> the cache of password is in memory, no ? i really don't see how you CB> can catch it ? anything can be caught in memory with the right access/tools... I would like to suggest you ask a few real crackers/hackers under Linux to look at at.... if this was windows, one can find anything one want in memory, modify it, extract it etc. Best regards, tracer mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
