Philip Martin wrote on Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 17:43:53 +0000:
> Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
> > The KDE behaviour is a potential information leak. A random app can use
> > the Subversion libraries to query a repo, if it can monitor whether
> > such a query causes the KDE prompt to appear then it can determine
> > whether or not the password for the repo is in the wallet. Since GNOME
> > always prompts no such leak is possible.
>
> Thinking about this a bit further, it's not really a leak at all.
Agreed. We're left still with the original problem --- that kwallet
prompts for unlock even if it doesn't contain the password, but gkeyring
prompts for unlock regardless of whether it contains the password?
> The information that is leaking is whether or not 'kwallet' is stored
> in the .subversion/auth directory for a given repository. But any
> application that is capable of triggering the leak would also be
> capable of simply reading the .subversion/auth files.
>
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Received on 2012-02-03 21:00:30 CET