Re: Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Ian G wrote: On 12/7/09 21:58, Anders Rundgren wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: On 2009-07-12 05:51 PDT, Anders Rundgren wrote: This is an interesting project. What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to for example Firefox. I must confess that I know absolutely noth

Re: Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Ian G
On 12/7/09 21:58, Anders Rundgren wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: On 2009-07-12 05:51 PDT, Anders Rundgren wrote: This is an interesting project. What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to for example Firefox. I must confess that I know absolutely nothing about NSS

Re: Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: On 2009-07-12 05:51 PDT, Anders Rundgren wrote: This is an interesting project. What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to for example Firefox. I must confess that I know absolutely nothing about NSS but I assume that the "soft-token" uses ob

Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Stef Walter
Michael Leupold wrote: > [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec The specification here has some bits that somehow didn't make it through. As a temporary measure, I've uploaded the original (multi-page html) one here: http://www.gnome.org/~stefw/secrets/html/ And t

Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Michael Leupold wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and me (KDE Wallet) started to draft a > common D-BUS API for secret information storage. It's meant to make Keyring- > and KWallet-like daemons available under a common D-BUS interface and thu

Re: Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2009-07-12 05:51 PDT, Anders Rundgren wrote: > This is an interesting project. > > What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to > for example Firefox. > > I must confess that I know absolutely nothing about NSS but I assume > that the "soft-token" uses obfuscation and

Re: [Authentication] Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Leupold
On Sunday 12 July 2009 14:51:43 Anders Rundgren wrote: > This is an interesting project. > > What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to > for example Firefox. I CCed Mozilla developers because this project would enable them to use this daemon for storing their secrets

Firefox? Re: Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
This is an interesting project. What's not completely obvious is how this relates (or could relate) to for example Firefox. I must confess that I know absolutely nothing about NSS but I assume that the "soft-token" uses obfuscation and an *optional* password as the sole protection mechanism. And

Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Leupold
Hi, A while ago Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and me (KDE Wallet) started to draft a common D-BUS API for secret information storage. It's meant to make Keyring- and KWallet-like daemons available under a common D-BUS interface and thus increase interoperability between GNOME, KDE and other appli