On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 17:32, Simon D Howard wrote: > I noticed that when using galeon and epiphany they both store passwords > for websites seperately from each other (and from the rest of gnome) - > would it be a good idea to split off the password storage system into a > seperate library? Ie. Create a general gnome keychain system for storing > such information. That's an excellent idea - an encrypted storage for passwords and maybe other information as well accessible to authenticated apps. The big question is how to authenticate the applications - I don't think a Palladium-style initiative would be too popular :) Perhaps something that would tie into pam or ssh-agent to unlock the storage on login and provided any application only access to data that application has previously stored in the the keychain (maybe by generating a public/private keypair upon first access, and the app would store its own private key somewhere within its own settings). -- Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@iki.fi>
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