Re: Insight needed on new encryption feature for ssh-keygen and ssh: "ssh-keygen --protect" and a linux data protection service

2014-04-18 Thread alexander taylor
eed to come first anyway so i can focus my initial research on that if the ssh ideas seem unlikely. thank you for your time and ideas! On 17 April 2014 08:44, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em 17-04-2014 08:05, alexander taylor escreveu: >> thanks for the reply! i am trying to keep

Re: Insight needed on new encryption feature for ssh-keygen and ssh: "ssh-keygen --protect" and a linux data protection service

2014-04-17 Thread alexander taylor
ome-keyring does the trick on linux, but for the feature to be popular and easy to use, pehaps it's better if it the solution is cross platform / built into ssh-keygen. thanks again! alex On 17 April 2014 01:40, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2014-04-14 00:28, alexander taylor wrote: >

Re: Insight needed on new encryption feature for ssh-keygen and ssh: "ssh-keygen --protect" and a linux data protection service

2014-04-17 Thread alexander taylor
, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:28:15AM -0700, alexander taylor wrote: >> The problem I'm trying to solve is that casual users [...] may not bother >> creating >> passphrases for their private ssh keys. [...] [T]hese keys could be >> cryptographically protected under the u

Insight needed on new encryption feature for ssh-keygen and ssh: "ssh-keygen --protect" and a linux data protection service

2014-04-14 Thread alexander taylor
g a passphrase and keeping it in a keyring solve the same problem, but require more effort by the user. More details on my research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mibuwHRJpzCFYuQJZ30Cgw6nBjyp6qod19tZnw-Rzv8/edit?usp=sharing Thanks for any help/insights! alexander taylor