[Authentication] Secret Storage API specification project
Michael Leupold
lemma at confuego.org
Fri Jul 10 04:04:09 PDT 2009
Hi,
A while ago Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and me (KDE Wallet) started to draft a
common D-BUS API for secret information storage. It's meant to make Keyring-
and KWallet-like daemons available under a common D-BUS interface and thus
increase interoperability between GNOME, KDE and other applications having the
need to securely store passwords and other confidential information.
We just finished a first rough draft of the specification. For gaining
widespread acceptance and use, we'd like to invite everyone interested to join
the drafting process which will take place on our mailinglist [1]. This
encompasses people working on similar systems/daemons as well as application
developers interested in using such an API.
The current draft is stored inside GNOME Keyring's git repository [2] and
generated using gtk-doc to generate the API documentation. The current working
draft is available inside the freedesktop.org wiki [3]. If there's a need for
it we will move the spec to a repository where collaboration will be easier
and move the generation to docbook2html.
Please note that the current D-BUS interface name is preliminary and not
settled upon. It will be decided once the new fd.o specification process has
been finalized.
To give everyone interested the chance to join the mailinglist beforehand, I'd
like to start the discussions on Wednesday, 15th of July.
Please forward this mail to members of your communities who might be
interested in taking part in the drafting process.
Regards,
Michael Leupold
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Authentication
[2] http://git.gnome.org:80/cgit/gnome-keyring/?h=dbus-api
[3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec
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