[haiku-development] Re: BKeyStore usage

  • From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:11:16 +0200

Am 11/09/2014 18:51, schrieb Ryan Leavengood:

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AFAIK the only user of this service is the WPA supplicant.

Besides that, in the long term it should be used by Web+, Mail Kit, etc. --
basically everywhere a password is needed.

Does BKeyStore actually do encryption now? As I recall when I merged
in mmlr's branch it did not yet have encryption. I was going to add it
but did not since I thought it would be nice to have a simple Haiku
encryption API, and that had several options for a back-end so I got
stuck in analysis paralysis and then stopped working on it at all.
I don't think anyone has worked on it since, so I guess it actually doesn't encrypt the keys. While it would be nice to have an encryption API, it really shouldn't hold up that work. It's a also a good idea to actually use an API before thinking of designing a new one :-) 

Bye,
   Axel.

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