master password gsoc project

[Richard Laager]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 19:51 -0400, William Ehlhardt wrote:
> I don't know what the extent of your Summer of Code project is, but
> there is a patch listed on Ubuntugeek.com that claims to offer master
> password encryption. See here:
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-master-password-expose-for-pidgin.html

That does encryption within Pidgin (well, probably libpurple). The SoC
project is to use an existing password safe, like the GNOME Keyring or
KDE Wallet. This will be much more user friendly. For many users, it
will Just Work.

Richard
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