On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:08:44AM -0600, Jeff Anderson wrote: > > It seems like a logical design-- GPG is a tried and tested encryption > technology, why not use it as a backend for a password manager? Is there > something inherently wrong with that idea?
I think it would be really handy for people like you (and me) who like to be able to edit files by hand, but most people probably wouldn't particularly appreciate the feature. I'm guessing that the existing password managers use well-tried and well-tested encryption libraries, but they focus more on UI issues than on having a variety of data backends. Additionally, you probably don't really need public key cryptography for a password manager. So I think that might explain why password managers don't use GPG, but I don't think there is any reason that they couldn't. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
