[Authentication] cookie-handling in password storage?

[Mark Peter Wege]

Hi,

I have heard about the common effort of Gnomies and KDE people for a common 
password storage. I am just a normal user and wanted to make a suggestion. I 
do not know if it really fits from a technical standpoint. I tried to 
understand what you write in your specification draft, but did not really 
understand it all. It sound a bit like, my suggestion would not fit to your 
attempts, but I thought it is worth a try. 
My suggestion is to add cookie handling to the jobs for the password storage. 
I know that cookies are not passwords, but they affect security and privacy in 
a similar way as passwords and it would be really good to have a common 
solution for that too.
- Cookies are often used for authentication; In that sense it would be really 
useful to look them away in a secure framework too.
- The rules for Cookie handling (accepting, denying cookies of a page and for 
how long) have something to do with the users privacy and it would make sense 
to have a common approach to it.

Hope you do not mind, that I joined, even though I do not have a technical 
background.

Greetings, Mark