Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> writes:

> - I could not find it with the CPAN client which is unfortunate IMHO.

What searches did you try?

> - If I click on "Categories/All" it crashes with this message:
> Can't call method "Check" on an undefined value at
> /home/gabor/perl5/bin/wxkeyring line 441.

You first need to give it a keyring file.
Nevertheless, it should not crash :)

> - File/Open offers me to search for a *.pdb file but I have no clue
> that that would be :(

Reading docs is hard...

  GNU Keyring is a neat PalmOS application to store and manage your
  access codes and passwords. There are other, non-palm implementations
  as well.

  WxKeyring is a wxWidgets based GUI application to browse the Keyring
  files.

Pay attention to "browse the Keyring files."

wxKeyring doesn't create and maintain keyrings. It just browses.
Adding functionality to create and maintain keyrings wouldn't be that
hard although I currently do not have any plans in that direction.

If you want to use wxKeyring as a starting point for a better tool, feel
free to do so. The wxGlade file is in the kit.

Some design aspects that I found useful:

- Do not decrypt the database when opening it, only decrypt individual
  items when required. 

- The password is asked when the first item is decrypted. So it is
  possible to inspect, without password, what secrets are in the keyring
  (but not their values). This may be a positive or negative feature,
  depending on how you look at it.

- Using []Veil and []Clip it is possible to transfer a secret to the
  clipboard without showing it.

-- Johan

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