Re: Proposed module: empathy

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Qui, 2007-12-27 at 19:20 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 27.12.2007, 11:52 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens:
> > Le lundi 24 décembre 2007 à 12:48 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a
> > écrit :
> > > I would just like to say that I am concerned about telepathy storing
> > > unencrypted passwords in GConf instead of GnomeKeyring.  GNOME modules
> > > should be taking security more seriously, IMHO.
> > 
> > It is not empathy's responsibility to store account parameters,
> > MissionControl does that job but unfortunately it does not uses gnome
> > keyring :(
> 
> I think we shouldn't bless any external dependency that introduces new
> security risks (by having to replicate features already existing in
> GNOME). So until libmissioncontrol uses gnome-keyring for password
> management, I say -1.

Agreed.  Come on, it's not like GnomeKeyring API is so complicated.
Coding this will take the developers no more than a couple of hours,
including the time to read the API docs.

Same goes for Evolution.  It's kind of silly that they had GnomeKeyring
support for a while, but then just dropped it.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert