Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] Topic 3: Foreign Usage Convention

[Frank P. <fp...@fp...>]

On Tue, 08 May 2007 02:10:51 -0400, Wolfgang Keller <91...@gm...> wrote:
>
> The most crucial point here is a convention on the usage of field types
> for applications. In the Java library KSE-PWSLIB (which I offer along
> with JPasswords) I recommend users to respect a reserved field range of
> 0x00 up to 0x7F. My suggestion is to declare this range as under the
> "legislation" of the Password Safe project (including close friends) and
> allow the range above as "free use". - FYI, in JPWS I "claim" a range of
> 0x40 to 0x4F for specific use.
>

Hi,

I disagree that any field types should be reserved for particular
applications.  Once you start doing that, every application will be
reserving their own values, and interoperability will be greatly
impacted.

If applications want to use your library for data storage, they are
welcome to use any field types they want, but then the resulting file
will not be a Password Safe (-compatible) password database.

>
>                                Possibly a document could be created
> where reserved field ranges (of major or closely related projects) would
> be stated.
>

There should be a document that states the specific format for each and
every possible field type in a Password Safe (-compatible) database --
and that document is formatV3.txt in the Password Safe repository.

I'm sure that the project admins here will not mind adding field types
if they hear a good idea.

Frank


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