Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of KeyringSupport

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May 5, 2013, 2:46:43 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Mechanical snail

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KeyringSupport

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+Keyrings cryptographically secure your password in a way that would generally be more secure (although not perfect). It would require a master password, shared amongst all the applications on your computer, to get at your passwords.
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+Pidgin does not currently support storing passwords in keyrings; currently you must either store passwords unencrypted or not at all.
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+== Status ==
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+There was a Google Summer of Code [wiki:GSoC2008/MasterPassword project] that made progress in this direction, but the code was not merged into the main developer branch (im.pidgin.pidgin).
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+The GSoC branch has implementations for Freedesktop and KWallet.
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+== See also ==
+* wiki:PlainTextPasswords
+* The feature request is ticket #673
+* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/75850 Launchpad bug]
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+== Specific keyrings ==
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+=== GNOME Keyring and KDE KSecretsService ===
+Status: implemented but not integrated
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+These are the GNOME and KDE implementations of the [http://standards.freedesktop.org/secret-service/ Freedesktop Secret Service API], intended to provide a standard interface for Linux apps to store passwords and stuff.
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+Pidgin would need to connect to the DBus API to store and retrieve passwords. There are several libraries to do this, including [https://live.gnome.org/Libsecret libsecret] and [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring python-keyring].
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+=== KDE KWallet ===
+Status: implemented but not integrated
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+Currently uses its own API, but there has been discussion about replacing it with KSecretsService using the standard API.