Re: Request for comments: GNOME Keychain

[Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte electronic-group com>]

The more i think about that keychains implementation the more i'm convinced that the backend should be GNU stuff and only frontend should be in gnome...

this way a common keychain implementation could be shared across the different UI...

For example a daemon running managing keychains of users recieving queries from  :

- Frontends for password creation/deletion/update/retrieval
- Applications for password querying with user's approval

Maybe this project is already on the way in the GNU community...

Your input ?

Cheers

On 07 Aug 2002 18:09:07 +0200
Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> wrote:

> ons 2002-08-07 klockan 16.36 skrev Julien MOUTTE:
> 
> Sounds great.
> 
> Michael has convinced me to make this into a GEP. I will try to find the
> time to do so later this week.
> 
> Everyones input on the matter will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
> 
> 
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I'm really pleased to read about that stuff on this mailing list...
> > 
> > In fact i was planning to build a similar project for my company's use...
> > 
> > Let me explain...
> > 
> > We've built a gnome password manager software for storing safely the list of our 150's linux servers root passwords. It's based on 2 software :
> > 
> > - An editor that lets you create your entries in a kind of virtual DB (server oriented) and that generates an encrypted file with a pass phrase.
> > 
> > - A gnome application that unlock the file prompting for the pass phrase and then let you get passwords from the app to connect trough ssh to your favourite linux box...
> > 
> > I wanted to redevelop both of them to make a Gnome2 applet from it and maybe add later a vfs module to make that some apps could query it.
> > 
> > I also wanted to abstract the virtual DB model to put more infos inside WEB pass , SSL certs and so on...
> > 
> > Source code of the current app is available if one project it to born in the Gnome 2 community for implementing Keychain on a similar model and i would be pleased to help in this project...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
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