[Eug-lug] password managers on USB stick ?

[horst]

> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:18:34 -0700
> From: Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
...>
> BTW, Horst, http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ is one of the most common
> password managers,
> to get back to the stated subject.
>

Ben, going back to my original post, I think passwordsafe was the one I 
had in mind when I talked about my dislike of keeping history of what the 
user does: a) in a dropdown, which is based on
b) .passwordsafe/preferences.properties in HOME

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ for org post: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  * Ability to freely choose filename and extension of encrypted data, and 
to navigate to those w/o leaving an obvious trace, e.g. I played with a 
java based application that would memorize path/filename in a drop-down 
menu the next time I ran it. It's convenient, but not good for a password 
manager.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As far as I could tell I was unable to turn this off........Horst





> ciao,
>
> ben
>
>
> On 7/31/07, horst <horsu at freeshell.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:48:04 -0700
>>> From: Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com>
>>> horst wrote:
>>>
>>>> I noticed a few binaries for Suse and Ubuntu, and the source code for
>>>> kernel 2.6.5 or better.
>>>
>>> Why does an encryption program have a kernel version dependency?  It
>>> ought to need nothing more than open, close, read and write.
>>
>> Looking at the build.sh in the tar ball
>> ...&& error "TrueCrypt requires Linux kernel 2.6.5 or later" && exit 1
>>
>> It looks like they build their own kernel module. They avoid standard IO
>> --for security and performance (just guessing)..................Horst
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