[guardian-dev] Gibberbot keystore format

[Miron]

In my opinion, hat would be too long to leave the private keys unencrypted on disk given that SQLCipher will be integrated.

Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:


On Aug 13, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Miron wrote:

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>>> I'm definitely not talking about import/export but indeed using
>>> gpg as the keystore. gpg-agent is a very handy piece of software
>>> that we would be silly to try to recreate. Its very well
>>> tested, audited and deployed. The same goes for gpg's key
>>> storage. Gibberbot can access that via the in-progress
>>> gpgme-for-java interface.
>> 
>>> The core idea of PSST is to make a unified crypto identity that
>>> can be seamlessly used in as many apps as possible, with as
>>> little input from the user as possible.
> 
> Okay, that makes sense now. I'll implement a stop-gap solution for
> the current issue.

My only question is: will a stopgap work for the next 6-12 months? It could be a while before this idea comes to fruition.

.hc

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