Re: gnome-keyring Trusted GUI Support

[Stef Walter <stefw collabora co uk>]

On 2011-10-09 15:06, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> > 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?

No it doesn't.

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

As I said above, what I'm working on is not "trusted path".

Cheers,

Stef