On Monday 23 Jan 2012 01:06:41 Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2012-01-23, Duncan wrote: > > Meanwhile, of course, with 4.8 kde is introducing the new ksecrets > > framework, designed to be api compatible with gnome-keyring (tho the > > backends are different), > > Just to clarify: secret service is actually a new API for services providing > secure local storage. One implementation of such a service is > gnome-keyring, though a lot of GNOME based programs still use the old, > gnome-keyring specific, API. > > There is some progress on a KDE based implementation for both the service > and the client part of a secret service setup. > The service component will at some point be run as part of a KDE workspace > setup, offering its services to any client application developed for the > secret service API. > The client library will allow KDE applications to access any other service > implementation, e.g. when the KDE application is running in a setup which > uses gnome-keyring as the storage service. > > The KWallet API will be implemented in terms of the new API, thus making > KWallet using applications use the currently running secret service. > > > and over the next several kde versions, it's > > likely various apps will switch to ksecrets from kwallet, leaving > > kwallet > > deprecated, altho I'm guessing it'll remain available thru the kde4 > > series. > > Indeed. > > > But whether it'll be in kde 5 or whether ksecrets will take over > > for kde5 and they'll drop kwallet, remains to be seen. > > I don't think this is a question of "if". It is more a question of whether > we will see a stand-alone or shared service implementation being used by > common workspace setups. > > In any case this won't change anything for the thread starter until there is > a service implementation that does not store the data in an encrypted file > but in plain text based file(s). > > Cheers, > Kevin Errrrrrrrrrrrr the passwords were never stored as PLAIN TEXT in the old kmailrc files they were always munged somehow a far superiour idea ti this new crazy idea of centeralised password storage screw one file bing all your passwords gone old style screw a file only passwords for that application gone everything else unnafected far safer Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-1-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 08:25:09 up 18:17, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.05 ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.