master password gsoc project

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Thu May 15 02:49:23 EDT 2008


Vivien,
For the most part I think this all looks really good!

On Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:55 -0500, Richard Laager wrote
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 01:25 +0200, Vivien Bernet-Rollande wrote:
> >  - secure memory handling
> 
> This one is going to be tricky to handle properly. And frankly, I'm not
> sure it's that big of a deal. I would focus on other goals first.

I agree.

> I'd rather see the secure password storage stuff in libpurple rather
> than as a plugin. Doing it in the core isn't really going to add that
> much code -- just a thing abstraction layer over the code that 
> already exists.

I agree with this, but I'm ok with doing it as a plugin, too.

-Mark




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