>On Monday, February 26, 2007 03:38:16 PM -0800 Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > >> If Microsoft can hide usernames and passwords in their >> registry in a manner that defeats at least casual browsing, >> what can we do? > >Putting something in the registry does not defeat casual browsing; if you >are worried about people looking through your dotfiles for passwords, you >would also need to be worried about people looking through the registry. > >That said, it would be nice to have something like this, but better for it >to be portable. Applications are more likely to use it if they can use it >on every platform, without requiring the user to install something. At a >minimum, that means it should avoid depending on some kernel service or >system-wide daemon that actually does the work. > >IMHO, the next question is, has someone else already done something that we >can make use of instead of starting from scratch?
what about the password keeper that you can get for Palm Pilots? I think it might be shareware. It keeps them all in a file that is, in turn, encrypted with a password that you DO have to enter at some point in order to get access.
