Re: gnome-keyring Seahorse Documentation

[Guy Hulbert <gh cotef net>]

Hi Stef

Thanks for your reply.

Yaron Sheffer contacted me off-list to let me know about:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityFAQ

and answered some of my questions.

I looked at GNUPG some time ago and convinced myself that the
command-line version is sufficient to be able to create a secure USB
escrow key.  If I can do the same using SeaHorse as an interface
then I'm happy.  I will publish any code I write.

I'm not a specialist but the RSA algorithm was included in my
introductory algebra course (1977) and I own copies of Cheswick and
Bellovin's book as well as a couple of Schneier's books.

On Wed, 2011-14-12 at 14:44 +0100, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 2011-12-12 15:48, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> > I couldn't find much but this comment
> > http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse/TrustModel
> 
> We have done most of that in Seahorse when you go to the properties of a
> key. Or does it not do what you were expecting.

I just need to convince myself that the private key is physically
secure.  That is what I would recommend to non-technical users.

> 
> > is what I'm interested in.
> > 
> > Is someone working on it or can I help out?
> 
> Helping out is always welcome :)
> 
[snip]
> Jim Campbell is working on creating some Mallard documentation for

I will take a look at Mallard then.

> seahorse, and if you're interested in working on part of that he would
> be the one to get in touch with.

He's CC'd.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stef
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