Version: 1.0 (using KDE 3.3.1, SuSE) Compiler: gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB Well some passwords are just more important. There is a lot of debate about Password-less Kwallet, this would easily solve the problem. Here is the general idea: 1. Multiple security levels (Green, Yellow, Red). 2. Each entry is assigned a security level. Default Yellow. When adding an entry you can choose the wallet and the security level (default yellow). 2.1. You can change default security levels per wallet. 3. To access an entry with Level L, Kwallet in mode >= L. (e.g, to access Yellow entries, you need to be in yellow or red mode.) 4. Green mode needs no password. Yellow standard password. Red pass-sentence. 5. higher security levels auto-close with different parameters. So it could go from Red to Yellow alone and eventually to Green on its own. 6. KWallet is on KDE startup with green level. That's it!! Security and usability! :)
Nice idea, but no. (in any case, wallets have 1 encryption over the whole thing, not per-item.)
That was fast! :) Why can't a wallet be composed of 3 separate parts then, each one with a different encryption though? Compatability with current wallets could be done by assuming yellow level.
On Saturday 06 November 2004 17:16, Jorge Adriano wrote: > ------- That was fast! :) > > Why can't a wallet be composed of 3 separate parts then, each one with a > different encryption though? Compatability with current wallets could be > done by assuming yellow level. Because that's overcomplicated. Users have the option of an unencrypted wallet now, and that's sufficient I think. Plus management of "security levels" is even more complicated than anything we had or have now. Assuming that entries from various apps are of various security levels is quite wrong. (I have web apps that have much more important security levels than local passwords, for instance.)
"Because that's overcomplicated. Users have the option of an unencrypted wallet now, and that's sufficient I think." Yeap I know. "Plus management of "security levels" is even more complicated than anything we had or have now." If a users just accepted the default settings then: One default wallet, with yellow as default, would be exactly what we had. Two wallets, one green the other yellow is exactly what we have now. "Assuming that entries from various apps are of various security levels is quite wrong. (I have web apps that have much more important security levels than local passwords, for instance.)" Agree... but I never suggested that (?). I may be missing something...