Dear Friends, First of all, many thanks for working on password management in Gnome. Until recently I had to encode my passwords using PGP and seashorse is a great replacement. But I still would like to avoid password sniffing. I recently bought smartcard readers on eBay. A decent smartcard reader may cost between 10€ and 20€. There is no reason why to avoid using one. For example the Omnikey cardman 3121 is available for 7€: http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160389398189 The same version for laptops costs 20€: http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180448143314 A more secure version would be a reader with pinpad to avoid PIN sniffing. I bought one on eBay for 30€. Finding decent blank smartcards is more difficult, but I bought several ones and will report the community soon to give some feedback. Is there a way, with present seahorse code, to store a wallet key in a smarcard? I guess we have to wait for X.509. If you need some more information about smartcards, I wrote this howto: http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/strongswan/SmartCards I think it is possible to store AES or X.509 certificates in a smartcard and use it as seahorse wallet key. Is this on your radar? If it is the case, I can help testing your code. Shall I open a feature request on bugzilla? Kind regards, Jean-Michel
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