On Thursday 19 October 2017 21:27:07 Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > On 19/10/2017 at 22:24, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > I had similar problems and switched to Chromium, however I would > > never trust *any* browser to store passwords > > I don’t especially like or trust fully Firefox, but I wouldn’t trust > Chromium more (yet my bank website too doesn’t work with firefox, > that’s why I do everything from commandline with boobank (which does), > yet once I used to use Chromium only for that). > > I’d especially like to notice that there are the packages > *xul-ext-gnome-keyring* and *xul-ext-kwallet5* which make both Firefox > and Thunderbird use respectively GNOME and KDE’s password > managers. That’s way more secure imho, and especially with the package > xul-ext-pwdhash. > > Waiting for the beautiful day where you’ll have only one passphrase to > remember, update and type for both grub/libreboot, luks, PAM/login, > password manager, and gpg-agent… Would that difficult to achieve? > Would require intensive hack on packages grub, luks, shadow, > Linux-PAM, Gnome-Keyring/KWallet and gnupg2 right? > > There are also the solution on allowing that unique passphrase per a > usb token, a pgp card, or no passphrase at all (when you have memory > problems and if you’re old and poor enough for example). > Don't mention age, cuz at 83 the word itself is discouraging.
> Makes computers way more accessible… Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
