Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7

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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> It would be interesting to know what we can rely on in the user group
> you're thinking about (which I called ssh-challenged). Setting up ssh
> keys is too complicated. Can we require a working gpg setup? They do
> want to check sigs, don't they?

I don't think you can require a working gpg setup (at least for not
addressing the ssh-challenged group).

[snip]
> Or that in C, probably using Junio's gpg-lib. That would be secure and
> useful *if* we can rely on people having a convenient gpg setup
> (gpg-agent or such).
>
> So: What credential store/password wallet/etc. can we rely on for this
> group? Is gpg fair game?

I think there probably need to be providers for using Keychain under
the Mac, gnome-keyring and kwallet under Linux, and probably something
using the wincrypt API under Windows.  I don't think there's a
one-store-fits-all solution here, unfortunately. :-(

I'm actually tempted try and work on a couple of those myself.

-John
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