Hello, list.
Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password
Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort.
I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the disk.
Unfortunately, the code is open, and I find this sort of protection
pretty weak
Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Since the source code is available to everyone, I conclude my
passwords can be easily deciphered by anyone who has access to the
code.
As any experienced software cracker will tell you, not having the code
doesn't make it all that harder to figure out the ciphering
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Hello, list.
Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password
Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort.
I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the disk.
Unfortunately, the code is open, and
On Saturday 25 June 2005 15:33, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Encryption method is known, and so is the encryption key (whether in
the source code or anywhere on my hard drive).
No. If you ever used any of these applications, you must have noted
that they interactively ask you a master password for
On 6/25/05, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Hello, list.
Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password
Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort.
I assume these applications use encryption to store
I'm getting a few replies to my question, and I'd like to clarify it a bit:
1. I'm not interested in a master-key. The idea is that everything
decrypts automatically.
2. My question was more FS oriented, less cryptographic oriented, and
could be rephrased as: Can I use a different constant for my
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:30:24PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
On 6/25/05, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Hello, list.
Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password
Manager, KWalletManager and applications
On Saturday 25 June 2005 20:30, Itay Duvdevani wrote:
Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password
Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort.
I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the
disk. Unfortunately, the code
Itay Duvdevani wrote:
2. My question was more FS oriented, less cryptographic oriented, and
could be rephrased as: Can I use a different constant for my key in
the code I release to the public, and not be in violation of the FS
principles?
The GPL is perfectly okay with using a modified
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:40:29 +0300
Itay Duvdevani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting a few replies to my question, and I'd like to clarify it a bit:
1. I'm not interested in a master-key. The idea is that everything
decrypts automatically.
Storing your key in the binary is not safe,
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