sponsoring: smartcard/certificate access

[NeoM]

Hello

following a private discussion with dominik, i'll ask on the forum if any developpers is interested in the following developpment:
add authentication with certificate (alone or in smartcard/usb token/...)

Depending on timeframe/cost and so on, it could be sponsored by a big european firm.
If interested, please drop me a mail.

thanks

[NeoM]

seems nobody ...

If this is done by external developpers, how much chance it can get in the main tree ?
how about documentation/guidelines for developpers to do this ?

thanks

[Dominik Reichl]

> how much chance it can get in the main tree ?

0%. I will not accept such heavy key methods code into the KeePass core code.

However, you can write it as a plugin.

KeePass 1.10 will have a key provider API, which makes it easy for plugin developers to offer new key methods. You can find a documentation here:
http://keepass.info/help/v1_dev/plg_keyprov.html

As KeePass 1.10 is not released yet (it probably will in the first week of 2008), you of course can't compile the sample code yet. If you find someone willing to develop certificate / smart card support, please let me know and I'll send you the source code of the current development snapshot immediately.

Best regards
Dominik