Re: gnome-keyring [RFC] PKCS#11 certificate chooser

[Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak v3 sk>]

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 19:41 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 19:20 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > I'm aware that Prashant did some work on this, but the activity
> > seems to have 
> > ceased and the work that was done seemed not match the expected UI
> > wireframe 
> > from bug #679860 [1]. 
>
> The original ideas envisioned there were deemed impossible to
> implement
> without assistance from the GtkFileChooser side — all we wanted to do
> really was add the PKCS#11 tokens as 'locations' in the sidebar, then
> take over the central "file chooser" pane and turn it into an "object
> chooser" when one of the PKCS#11 locations was chosen. But it wasn't
> something that was feasible.
>
> So the design had to evolve somewhat, and continued to do so. I think
> Tyagi's code lacked a little bit of "polish" but had a fundamentally
> sane workflow — and at GUADEC we'd refined it a little further in
> discussion with Stef.
>
> Tyagi mailed me just this week in fact, to say that he's no longer
> quite so snowed under with college work and is revitalising the
> project. It would be great to incorporate parts of the excellent work
> he's done on the workflow, even if some of the details end up being
> revamped.

Glad to hear that. The branch to follow would be master in
https://github.com/tyagi-prashant/gcr.git ?

I'm wondering if you could share some details of the workflow that
you've come up with?

It seems like you're dealing with issues I couldn't figure out in my
prototype and pretended they don't exist (e.g. key and certificate with
potentially different ids or labels, or choosing a pair of
certificate/key files from filesystem, or even knowing if a token login
is needed).

> > Therefore I chose to start from scratch following the 
> > GtkFileChooser* instead. That might or might not have been a good
> > idea;
> > either way -- I'd be glad if manage to somehow get a working
> > certificate picker.
>
> I'll try to take a look... got a git repo I can pull it from?

That would be:

git pull https://github.com/NetworkManager/gcr.git lr/pkcs11-chooser

Thanks
Lubo