kwallet needed on smartphones?

[Cyrille Berger]

On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Practially on N900 the password will be there just in memory. As an
> attacker you can just start up the phone, copy the data. If we could
> access the PIN from without our applications this would not add much
> protection.
> More protection can only be gained if we allow a better password to be
> entered by the user as key or we save the key in the SIM cards memory.
> Using the SIM card memory can potentially be hard and this solitution would
> render the device less useful in case no simcard is there.
I am ready to bet that 99% of N900&al users will have a simcard. So I might be 
tempted to suggest to go with the SIM card solution as the preferred way, and 
when the simcard is not available, to fallback to a password dialog.

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Cyrille Berger