[PATCH] Make pinentry-qt read and store passphrases in KDE 3.2's wallet

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Dec 1 14:34:25 CET 2003


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:03:28 +0100, Robert Schiele said:

> here, but I think you cannot hold your statement that using such an
> application is like storing the unencrypted private key to disk, because you
> still can have the hope that there is no bug in the application code that
> allows an attacker to fetch the password.

Okay.  Anyway, pinentry shall not have an extra and specialized
interface for one application.  Furthermore, all variants of pinentry
have to have the same interface.

 Werner

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