Re: [gnukeyring-discuss] MS Windows Desktop Condoit

[Florin A. <fl...@sg...>]

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 14:40, Stefan Wundrak wrote:
> 
> I just made a quick hack, by grabbing some code from the keyring PC-Conduit,
> adapting it
> to win32, and building a little MFC GUI for it.

Excellent!

> It is not a real Conduit, but just a tool, that will read in the pdb file
> from the harddisk, display
> a list of records, and decrypts it if you select a record. Its not possible
> to enter data though.

It may be great to do it with GTK, just like Gimp/Win32 is, so that
rewriting the whole thing for Linux/BSD/Unix would be piece of cake.
Maybe even Gnome-ify it, at some moment in the future.

> Btw., what is the status of the keyring project anyway? Is anybody still
> using this
> software? I and quite a bunch of my friends do.

I sure do, and almost everyone i know (that's concerned about the
security of their data on PalmOS PDAs).

> Has the latest release any serious security issues?

Still waiting for the next release that is supposed to correct the
entropy thing... ;-)

-- 
Florin Andrei

"'Fewer fundamental changes' is a mark of a system that isn't evolving
as quickly, and that is reaching middle age. We are probably not quite
there yet" - Linus Torvalds