Re: gnome-keyring Trusted GUI Support

[Anders Rundgren <anders rundgren telia com>]

On 2011-10-08 17:42, Stef Walter wrote:

> On 2011-10-08 12:05, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Goals
>>
>> "Goal: Consistent UI for keys and certificates"
>>
>> Does this mean that there is a common trusted PIN mechanism somewhere?
>>
>> If so, how is this used by applications?
> 
> I'm working on a DBus based prompting mechanism, which we'll be
> integrating in GNOME for PIN entry. This prompting mechanism will be
> implemented by gnome-shell and so we'll get nice looking system dialogs.
> 
> Sadly, and most importantly, this won't be 'trusted path' or 'secure'.
> To my knowledge it is currently very hard (perhaps not yet possible) to
> do trusted input via X.

I'm not familiar with the gcr code so please excuse my naive question:
Does gcr introduce kernel-modules?

The reason for asking is that I don't see how "trusted path" support
could be realized without relying on kernel-mode.

Cheers,
Anders

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stef
>