[Authentication] GnuPG-keyrings. Was: cookie-handling in password storage?

Anders Rundgren anders.rundgren at telia.com
Wed Aug 19 02:09:41 PDT 2009


Hi Mark,

>Another thing I thought about: What about the gnupg-keyrings? Are they thought 
>in too? And would this make sense?

Asymmetric keys are different because you can do the auth operations inside of
the secure storage.  In fact you can do a lot of interesting stuff inside of
secure containers if you want:
http://webpki.org/papers/keygen2/secure-key-store.pdf

That's another project :-)

Regards
Anders


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