Comments on: Simsafe: Simple command-line password safe http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/ Life, Linux and other things Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DracoBlue http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/#comment-8895 DracoBlue Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:26:01 +0000 http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/#comment-8895 Nice little script ;), thanks for sharing! - Jan Nice little script ;), thanks for sharing!

- Jan

]]> By: Anarcat http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/#comment-8680 Anarcat Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:33:43 +0000 http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/#comment-8680 Passing the GPG password through a password file hardly seems like appropriate security for a password manager. People are worried about putting that password in *memory* (because it may eventually be written to disk through swap), so you should be more careful. If I remember this right, there's a Perl API for GPG you could use, otherwise, there are ways to simply use gpg to prompt the password itself. Passing the GPG password through a password file hardly seems like appropriate security for a password manager. People are worried about putting that password in *memory* (because it may eventually be written to disk through swap), so you should be more careful. If I remember this right, there’s a Perl API for GPG you could use, otherwise, there are ways to simply use gpg to prompt the password itself.

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