Alan Cox wrote: >> I just started thinking about this today, so let me know what's missing. > > One of the things you can use the TPM for in a treacherous computing > system is simply as a poor quality smart card. And for that matter > working with a proper smart card is similar. Being able to share my > keyring simply by > > - USB > - Bluetooth > - Internet > - Smart Card > - TPM (where there is a common root key) > > including merging entries from multiple sources. PAM already lets me > direct sensitive system authentication questions to a seperate trusted > display (my phone) which I can't currently do for the other apps.
You can do this via USB today with gnome-keyring. There's currently not much UI for it (I'd like to implement the UI properly), but it should work: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Removable If properly thought out, it seems Internet storage of a keyring could work in a similar way. More on this later... Cheers, Stef Walter _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
