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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent
From:       Paul Campbell <paul () taniwha ! com>
Date:       2003-11-10 21:55:08
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On Monday 10 November 2003 01:49 pm, Christian Mueller wrote:
> it seems IBM is applying for a patent on the idea behind
> kwallet (At least that's how it sounds to me):
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HI
>TOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50
>&s1=%2220030159071%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030159071&RS=DN/20030159071
>
> There's also a slashdot article about it:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/09/1648253&mode=threa
>d&tid=155&tid=99

well there's been prior art for things that work exactly like 
kwallet - Apple's 'keychains', introduced about 10 years ago, 
are really the same idea and implementation (thought - how do I 
config kwallet to do what the Apple ones did where I could have 
the system automatically use my login password to open the 
wallet?)

I don't believe this is a problem for KDE.

	Paul
 
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