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

["Joseph F. Dries III" <joseph dries dcsquared com>]

> > 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...

I mentioned something similar back in May of this year but it received
no attention. At the moment I have neither the time, nor the experience
with Bonobo/CORBA/GNOME to code a component up. But I would love to see
such a thing, especially with Miguel's big push on code reuse and UNIX
components.

See the message
 
http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/2000-May/000681.html
for more details.

-j

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Joseph F. Dries III
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Security and Network Architect
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