KPasswordEdit and security

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 14:03, Richard Moore wrote:
> If we were to attempt something like this, we might be able to make a
> valgrind skin or something that tracked where the password got copied
> to in order to allow us to detect places that need fixing.

e.g. over the message bus when it gets stored/retreived via kwallet?

imho, a better solution is to have an encrypted swap partition and not allow 
access to the user's environment during usage to another person. in other 
words, nothing much kde related. and then we can get rid of kpasswordedit 
altogether and just use klineedit as an extra bonus.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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