Re: Keeping passwords secure



On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:23 PM, ardoRic <ardoric gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Since the begginning that i noticed that NetworkManager uses
>  Gnome-Keyring to keep wireless WEP and WPA keys. I applaud that.
>
>  However I always found it strange that in my gnome-keyring there are
>  no entries for my passwords on WPA Enterprise networks (eduroam, for
>  example). The other day i found out that they are stored in plain text
>  on gconf. Is there any technical reason for this? Any reason why WPA
>  Enterprise credentials can't be stored safely in keyring?
>
>  I actually care more about my eduroam credentials than i do about
>  PSK's and such.
>
>  If there is no serious reason for this behavior, i would like to ask
>  that it gets changed.
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Ricardo Silva
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I think this is changed in 0.6.6 and 0.7.x   Are you still running 0.6.5?


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