Re: gnome-keyring Idea: service generating passwords based on a key and master password (like PwdHash)

[Stef Walter <stef thewalter net>]

On 2011-12-30 22:59, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a little idea which -- if injected into gnome-keyring -- could
> serve quite a nice purpose to the community. The idea is to provide
> an interface for applications to requested passwords on a similar
> manner as old PwdHash[1] Firefox extension did.
> 
> As I see it, it could work like that: an application would request
> (over D-Bus) generating a new hashed password for a particular key
> (domain). Gnome-keyring would ask user for his master password
> (or a similar dedicated password) and use that to generate the new
> password and send it back to the application.

That sounds a lot like some work being done on gnome-keyring to make
NTLM or Kerberos work. In that the client application asks the daemon
for a specific hash for a given domain.

How widely is PwdHash used?

Cheers,

Stef
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