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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: kmail & pgp
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-27 20:48:56
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On Tuesday 27 August 2002 00:49, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2002 02:26 pm, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 26 August 2002 22:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 August 2002 11:09 am, Mathias Kloth wrote:
> > > > Hi KMail maintainer,
> > > >
> > > > I have added a small functionality to kmail.
> > > > Using kmail I was concened keeping the passphrase of my private
> > > > key in the memory. Regarding security such a passphrase should
> > > > be in the memory only for the amount of time it is processed.
> > >
> > > I had the exact same thoughts after I started using the
> > > encryption features recently. Instead of adding a seperate button
> > > for it I thought it might be nicer to wipe the passphrase
> > > whenever the screensaver kicks in, since that suggests you are no
> > > longer behind your computer.
> >
> > How do we detect this?
>
> Connect to a dcop signal.. then we only need to make sure that
> kdesktop or so emits that signal whenever it locks the desktop...
> *click*click* done :-)
>
> Update kdebase/kdesktop and restart kdesktop and apply the following
> patch together with the kpgp part of Matthias patch.

Sure. After KDE 3.1. Remember? We are in feature freeze! Or is this 
maybe a security "bug" fix? It seems so.

Shouldn't this be configurable? I doubt very much that everyone will 
like it when KMail starts forgetting the passphrase.

Regards,
Ingo

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