Re: Gnome keyring security in Fedora

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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:43 +0000, Christopher wrote:
>> I can't be the only one interested in finding out how to secure these
>> things in Fedora.
>
> Any application running as your user can read anything from your
> keyring (provided it is unlocked). This is not problematic because we
> don't have any application sandboxing yet, so apps can read all your
> personal files and do whatever they want with them. They're trusted by
> definition. Who cares if they can get your passwords too?
>
> Ideally we would improve this.
>
> P.S. It uses secure memory to prevent your private keys from being
> paged to disk, but it doesn't work in Fedora. You'll see a warning
> about that in your journal.

Why doesn't it work in Fedora?

josh
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