Re: cleaning up keyrings
- From: Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>
- To: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: cleaning up keyrings
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:35:46 +0000 (UTC)
Alan Cox wrote:
>> I just started thinking about this today, so let me know what's missing.
>
> One of the things you can use the TPM for in a treacherous computing
> system is simply as a poor quality smart card. And for that matter
> working with a proper smart card is similar. Being able to share my
> keyring simply by
>
> - USB
> - Bluetooth
> - Internet
> - Smart Card
> - TPM (where there is a common root key)
>
> including merging entries from multiple sources. PAM already lets me
> direct sensitive system authentication questions to a seperate trusted
> display (my phone) which I can't currently do for the other apps.
You can do this via USB today with gnome-keyring. There's currently not
much UI for it (I'd like to implement the UI properly), but it should work:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Removable
If properly thought out, it seems Internet storage of a keyring could
work in a similar way. More on this later...
Cheers,
Stef Walter
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