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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-11 13:42:28
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On Monday 10 November 2003 16:55, Paul Campbell wrote:
> 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

   Exactly.

> config kwallet to do what the Apple ones did where I could have
> the system automatically use my login password to open the
> wallet?)

  Horrible idea...  Where do we store your password in order to do this?  It 
also defeats the "walk away from the terminal and the wallet is still 
accessible" safeties.  I think it's very convenient, but a bad idea from a 
security perspective.

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

  Yes I'm completely not worried in this case.  

-- 
George Staikos
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Staikos Computing Services Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/

 
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