Re: Re: Re: KWallet: Lost password

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On Thu June 24 2004 17:10, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> >> Unfortunately you can't retrieve the password - even as root - as it's
> >> encrypted.
> >
> > Encrypted or hashed?
>
> Don't know, I'm not a cryptography expert! I do remember a discussion about
> how they don't do it the best way in kwallet, but I can't find the link
> now.

The information stored in the wallet is encrypted with the wallet password. 
Without the wallet password it is not possible to unencrypt the information 
stored in the wallet. The wallet password itself is not stored anywhere.

Cheers,
Waldo
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