[gnukeyring-discuss] Keyring 2.0-pre1 test release

[Jochen H. <Hoe...@In...>]

A new test release of Keyring is out:

Keyring for PalmOS 2.0-pre1

Copyright 1999-2002 by Martin Pool
Copyright 2001-2003 by Jochen Hoenicke

  http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/prerelease.html

This is a prerelease of keyring and it may contain bugs that destroy
the database or even require a hard reset.  So update your backup,
before installing this.

On the positive side, this prerelease will live happily with
keyring-1.2.3 without interfering.  It uses a different database and
different creator IDs.  I also hadn't any hard resets or database
corruption with this program.

Upgrading your keyring-1.2.3 database is not yet supported.  And I
can't promise that later versions of keyring will understand the new
database.  So use it just for testing and keep important passwords
with keyring-1.2.3.

=46OR CONDUIT WRITERS
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There is also an updated version of keyring-link on the web page.
keyring5.c contains the code to check the password and decrypt and
unpack the records.  It require openssl-0.9.7 (for AES encryption).
The record format is also described in the HACKING document inside
keyring-2.0-pre1.tar.gz.

If you have comments about the record format, e.g. you find it too
ugly :), feel free to contact me. =20


HISTORY
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Changes from 1.2.3:

 * New crypto format.  New algorithms DES3-CBC and AES-CBC.
 * Use PBKDF2 for key generation.  This is a bit slower, to make brute
   force attacks more difficult.

 * New record format, allowing to store more than the standard fields
   later.

 * Make name/account/password fields scrollable to support long passwords.

 * Generate Hex passwords.

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Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Email: hoe...@in...  Tel: +49 441 798 3124