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Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

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On Thursday 19 October 2017 21:27:07 Garreau, Alexandre wrote:

> On 19/10/2017 at 22:24, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> > I had similar problems and switched to Chromium, however I would
> > never trust *any* browser to store passwords
>
> I don’t especially like or trust fully Firefox, but I wouldn’t trust
> Chromium more (yet my bank website too doesn’t work with firefox,
> that’s why I do everything from commandline with boobank (which does),
> yet once I used to use Chromium only for that).
>
> I’d especially like to notice that there are the packages
> *xul-ext-gnome-keyring* and *xul-ext-kwallet5* which make both Firefox
> and Thunderbird use respectively GNOME and KDE’s password
> managers. That’s way more secure imho, and especially with the package
> xul-ext-pwdhash.
>
> Waiting for the beautiful day where you’ll have only one passphrase to
> remember, update and type for both grub/libreboot, luks, PAM/login,
> password manager, and gpg-agent… Would that difficult to achieve?
> Would require intensive hack on packages grub, luks, shadow,
> Linux-PAM, Gnome-Keyring/KWallet and gnupg2 right?
>
> There are also the solution on allowing that unique passphrase per a
> usb token, a pgp card, or no passphrase at all (when you have memory
> problems and if you’re old and poor enough for example).
>
Don't mention age, cuz at 83 the word itself is discouraging.

> Makes computers way more accessible…


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when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-19 20:00 +0200
  Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-10-19 20:10 +0200
    Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-19 21:10 +0200
      Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-10-19 23:30 +0200
      Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-10-20 01:20 +0200
    Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-10-19 21:10 +0200
  Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2017-10-19 23:40 +0200
    Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do  internet purchases?] Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-10-20 03:10 +0200
      Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do  internet purchases?] Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-10-20 03:50 +0200
    Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?] "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> - 2017-10-20 03:30 +0200
      Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-20 04:00 +0200
  Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-10-20 02:40 +0200

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