On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 21:54 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 00:55 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> >> The underlying concepts and technologies of gnome-keyring (which really
> >> should be 'gnome-password') and encryption keys are extremely different.
> >
> > There is nothing conceptually that limits gnome-keyring to passwords. As
> > long as the secret can be encoded as a string, and referenced/found via
> > attributes that are ints and strings it can be stored in gnome-keyring.
>
> True. I hadn't thought about that. An interesting thought for developers
> of any hand rolled crypto in GNOME.
It was designed to allow this openness. Whether its the right design and
usable for this stuff, I dunno. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time
to splend on gnome-keyring these days.
> Obviously all the current crypto libraries and apps come with their own
> storage methods for key data. They're also much further down in the
> stack: OpenSSH, GnuPG, NSS, GnuTLS, OpenSSL
The case of SSL is an actual user problem. We really need a way to allow
ssl certificates to be shared between appd. I think the NSS people are
working on a session global shared store for this.
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