Just in case anyone is thinking of the same issues. A lot of discussion is going on along the lines of getting a user's desktop unbound from a physical computer, and letting the user peruse his/her settings, data from all over.
One issue is that of passwords and (private) encryption keys. It seems it's poor security to let this data be stored on some server accessible from anywhere and protected only by a password. The idea is to store passwords and/or encryption keys on a removable disk (such as a USB thumb drive) and allow our user to have them available when it is inserted into a computer. [1] Gnome Keyring already supports this for passwords, and by GNOME 2.22 should support SSH and other keys in this manner. Obviously this isn't a solution for those with special security needs. But those folks should be using a single machine anyway. Cheers, Stef Walter [1] The machine needs to be free from malware or trojans. But that's the case with any computer you entrust with access to our data (whether stored online or not), passwords etc... _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list