Thanks for the encouragement. Some of your questions are answered on a little webpage I threw together to help me organize my thoughts: http://lemaymd.com/main.php?frag=pwmng&title=Gnome%20Password%20Manager%20Applet It's not a masterpiece, but it should give you a little better idea of what this is. I am working through various bugs in the prototype applet right now, and it only has partial functionality. However, I feel that it is fairly close to working, and I will post a download link to it as soon as I can. Memory protection has certainly been on my mind, and I will check out GPG to see how they deal with it. Unfortunately, there is little I will be able to do to protect a password once it is placed on the clipboard or into any Gnome widget. Someone correct me if I'm overlooking something here... -- Michael > I think this sounds like an extremely useful tool. > I'll be very interested to hear more specifics around implementation and > usage models, though: first, anything that stores passwords needs to be > extra-careful when handling them: consider things like hardwired memory > so it doesn't get swapped to disk, etc. GPG has a lot of experience > with these types of security issues. > Second, what would the usage of such an applet be? I guess you'd be > able to enter a username or list a usernames (where "username" is > generic; could be a web site or whatever) and it would show a password > on the screen? Or, put it into the clipboard? Or...??? > I'm assuming you need a key of some kind to access the applet; would > that be a ssh key? Or a separate passphrase? How often do you have to > enter it--every time, once per session, some timeout? > Just curious? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
