Re: gnome-keyring auto login

[Herr Oswald <herr_oswald gmx de>]

> > To boil down my thought again:
> > Is it really true that there are only the alternatives 
> > * "password encrypted keyring" or 
> > * "unencrypted keyring" - 
> > or could there be a smart and pretty save "in-between" with a
> > password,
> > smart and safely stored on the computer?
>
> I protect my keyring using randomly generated password which I store
> in an OpenPGP-encrypted file. I have patched gkr to call gpg to
> decrypt that file every time password is necessary. As such, the
> security matters are deferred to gpg (where you can play with hw
> etc).
>
> The patch is really a cheap hack and not suitable for upstreaming.
> However, if it helps you, I can send it later today.

Hello, thanks and excuse for my late reply.

Your solution sounds interesting, and it would be nice if I could learn
more about it. Hope I'm smart enough to install it on my machine.

Cheers,
Wolf