A good idea. But please do not forget that keyrings can also contain 'real keys' and try to mimic apple keychain - do not forget hardware cryptography solutions such as smart cards. Absence of a common API and generic fragmentation of *nix world (openssl, nss, pkcs11, gnutls, openssh etc etc) has created partial solutions like PKCS#11 Registry: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/Pkcs11TaskForce , created a lot of custom 'smart card daemons' (gnupg scdaemon http://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/Scdaemon-Protocol.html)
I'm sure folks @ opensc-devel (http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel ) would have some comments and suggestions. Martin Paljak, OpenSC developer http://martin.paljak.pri.ee +372.515.6495 On 01.10.2008, at 10:22, Michael Leupold wrote: > Hi, > (Someone directed me here after posting to dev-apps-firefox - I hope > this is the right list) > > I'm the maintainer of the KDE Wallet system and I'm currently in > process of starting a freedesktop.org specification for storage for > secret information like passwords or certificates. Other people > involved in this project are the gnome keyring developer and > developers of other free browsers. What got this project started were > various user requests for having one central password storage/ > management facility on their desktop. > > The system's general architecture will be quite similar to what > kwallet/keyring offer nowadays, with a symmetrically encrypted storage > and a client/server architecture. There hasn't been anything ironed > out yet and I'd like to invite developers of the various mozilla > projects to join and voice their opinion about what they'd want such a > system to be to make use of it as well. > > Currently the project creation request resides in the freedesktop.org > bugtracker: > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16581 > > Please CC me on replies as I'm currently not subscribed to this list. > > Regards, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
