Keeping the last subject, today I’ll write a little about the Gnome Keyring security. As presented in the last post, the Gnome Keyring is responsible for storing users sensitive information in encrypted databases called keyrings. I’ve shown how to create an Keyring and store some secrets. But now I...
In the last post I’ve shown how to create keyrings using python and mentioned a slightly difference from the "seahorse password storing process". Well, it happens that, when we start to dig this difference isn’t so small. Using seahorse every keyring item is created with the "Update if Exists" flag...
In the last post we started introducing how the Gnome Keyring works. I showed how to create a keyring and its items using Seahorse, now I’m going to show how to do it using Python. In order to interact with Gnome Keyring from Python we need python-gnomekeyring installed. Let’s start bending…
In the last days, I was working in Tiamat and faced the need to store SSH and Telnet passwords. I don’t even hesitated, one name came to my mind: Gnome Keyring. It’s easy, it’s secure and have Python binding, what was missing?! Know how to use it. Before we start bending, I’d like to discuss a...
Hello there, and welcome to Mind Bending! I’m pleased to announce the beginning of this blog! Many must be wondering who am I, so I posted a brief description of who I am and what I do here. In advance I’ll say that I’m no important person and I don’t master anything, I’ll just use this blog to...
