Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Nate Nielsen wrote:
> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> > På Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:04:09PM +0000, Nate Nielsen skrev:
> > > Key Manager
> > >   * gnome-keyring integration for GnuPG and OpenSSH
> > As an outsider I'm wondering: would a merge with gnome-keyring itself
> > instead of building on top of it be a good idea?
>
> The underlying concepts and technologies of gnome-keyring (which really
> should be 'gnome-password') and encryption keys are extremely different.
>
> That said, presenting them to the user in a common UI may be an idea
> worth pursuing.

Then you could handle passphrased ssh/gpg key for free ;-)
(afaik it's not possible yet to create a passphrase-protected ssh key in 
seahorse, or rather I didn't find out how to do it in edgy's version)