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

Guillaume Martres smarter3 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 13:46:54 PDT 2009


Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 22:10:23, Stef Walter a écrit :
> 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
As there probably isn't going to be a lot of those cross-applications 
collections, being able to access them via property seem enough to me.
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