eric@lucii.org on Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:55:20 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] personal keychain manager


I like passwordsafe from Counterpane.com (Bruce Schneier's company):

(hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/)  

Currently, it's in the process of being ported to Linux.

Eric

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:58:02AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have a lot of passwords. The dumb way to manage them (though there
> are dumber) is with something like
> 
>     find-passwd() { gpg --decrypt $keychain | grep $1; }
>     add-passwd() { ( gpg --decrypt $keychain; echo $1; ) | \
>         gpg --encrypt > $keychain.back; mv $keychain.back $keychain; }
> 
> and ch-passwd happens by hand or something unless one gets elaborate.
> 
> But this seems to common to require such an ad hoc solution. Searching
> on freshmeat and cpan, however, didn't reveal anything useful.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
>  GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276  63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B



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