On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Bacher
wrote:
> so set an empty password for your keyring? it's your choice and a valid
> option
Thank you for teaching me something as I didn't know that an empty password
would be valid.
> , or do you argue unsecure keyring should be the default fo
the issue has already be discussed, there is just no way to have a
secure keyring and not ask for any secret to be typed since if the
secret could be read from a programmatic way from disk it would not be
secure, any other random piece of code could use the same algorithm to
sneak your passwords th
i think nothing should be automatically unsecure or secure (i understand that
some defaults are necessary and i do not see a point in discussing what
defaults should be), but the user should have the options to set his level of
security as he sees fit.
thus:
automatic login does what it says: it
> I disagree. I have a full encrypted hard-drive, so after I provide a
passphrase to unlock the encrypted device I don't want to enter a
password again.
so set an empty password for your keyring? it's your choice and a valid
option, or do you argue unsecure keyring should be the default for all
us
"...that's not a bug though, the keyring need you to enter your
passphrase to unlock it..."
I disagree. I have a full encrypted hard-drive, so after I provide a
passphrase to unlock the encrypted device I don't want to enter a
password again.
In a more general case, if someone selects automatic l
thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though, the keyring need
you to enter your passphrase to unlock it, if it was possible to unlock
it automatically from the code anybody could write code to read your
passwords too, the security stands in having an information you need to
enter to acce
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