Re: [gnukeyring-discuss] Port for another OS?

[Martin P. <mb...@sa...>]

On 30 May 2003, Benjamin Esham <bd...@in...> wrote:
> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 01:04  PM, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> 
> >It would be useful to have a Unix/BSD port of this.   Curses based 
> >would work, or web-based.
> 
> Web-based sounds good.  Why not write it in PHP -- then it can be used 
> on *nix, Mac OS X, and Windows?

Both the API and user interface would be so different that I doubt it
could be a "port" in any meaningful sense.  It's probably better to
write a new application, based on the ideas you like in Keyring.

Perhaps if it was written in some kind of database scripting language
then you could just move it across, but it's not so that's by the by.

Personally I would feel less confident in storing confidential
information on a web server.  One of the nice things about keeping it
on a Palm is that there are fairly few ways for people to attack it.

-- 
Martin