Re: [Evolution] A few questions, comments, problems

[Vincent Trussart <trussarv CIRANO UMontreal CA>]

> > 3- One nice thing that could be done with the gpg support is to encrypt
> > all the passwords
> > held by evolution using the gpg passphrase : upon startup, the
> > passphrase could be asked
> > only once...
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. What if the user doesn't have gpg? What
> if gpg gets removed after you've started using Evolution? Not to mention
> it'll slow things down to have to decrypt the password every few minutes
> whenever a password was needed.
>
> For those paranoid about passwords being in memory, Evolution will allow
> you to enter the password in each time you check mail and then remove them
> from memory as soon as it no longer needs the password.

Maybe it would be nice to have a "password manager" bonobo component that
could
be independant of evolution; the user could configure it the way he wants
(every password encrypted using gpg/pgp if available, ....) through a gnomecc
capplet
for example.

Moreover, this service could also be used by web browsers (galeon, for
example) to
manage passwords for web sites the way mozilla is doing it...