[Authentication] Proposal for a common secrets handling in web browsers

Stef Walter stef-list at memberwebs.com
Wed Jul 15 13:10:23 PDT 2009


Guillaume Martres wrote:
>>> It would be available using
>>> org.freedesktop.Secrets.Service.NetworkCollection
>> Not sure I understand what you mean by this. Could you elaborate
>> further? Obviously an application has the choice to make/use any
>> collection it desires.
> The goal is that browsers share their secrets, so that you can switch browsers 
> and still have access to all your secrets.

Cool. I see so in addition to DefaultCollection there would be a
NetworkCollection (or BrowserCollection) property for the object path to
browser secrets? Interesting.

Or do we need a way of marking collections and discovering which one
should be used for these well known purposes?

Cheers,

Stef





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