[Ml-yokadi] New feature : encryption

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Sébastien Renard a écrit :
> >>> - NCrypt encryption mechanism need an initial vector *and* a key to
> >>> achieve proper encryption. I think that asking two things to user is
> >>> way too much (GnuPG required only one). So I put a fix initial
> >>> vector... Hope that's not too weak.
> >>
> >> I hope so as well, but I agree asking for an initial vector would be
> >> annoying.
> >
> > NCrypt author does not agree with our optimistic approach :
> > http://tachyon.in/pipermail/ncrypt-users/2006-August/000009.html
> >
> > Grrr.
>
> On the other hand, I do not see how to do any other way. It would be
> interesting to check how encryption is implemented in KWallet or GNOME
> keyring.

For kwalletd: by hand.
See these files in kdebase/runtime/kwalletd/backend:

blockcipher.cc  blockcipher.h  blowfish.cc  blowfish.h  blowfishtables.h  
cbc.cc  cbc.h  sha1.cc  sha1.h

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