eWallet

[OOzy Pal]

On 5/11/06, email.listen at googlemail.com <email.listen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Wed, 10. May 2006 06:03 schrieb OOzy Pal:
> > > Ahem, what above is the pin?
> > > Are we talking about a Personal Information Number or what stands PIN for
> > > to your definition? And to wich interface (software or hardware) will it
> > > be checked in and how?
> > >
> > > We are talking about automatic password management, don't we?
> > >
> > > Your example above seems to be only a set of data which is private and
> > > will be used for interactive checkin by a user, e.g. by typing it into a
> > > standalone apparatus. Which is more a scenario for revelation and the use
> > > of a gpg-card or a encrypted file which helds the data.
> > >
> > > May be it is an idea if you describe what kind of workflow you are
> > > talking about so that we will be able to find a perfect sollution.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > thomas
> >
> > The PIN here is the File # but there is no automatic login for it. I
> > think I am confusing you. What I want is a wallet that will hold my
> > items that I need to remember such as my password, record#, bank
> > account and pin, etc. Some of my data might have automatic login such
> > as my bank info and some don't such as the example I mentioned eariler
> > (medical records).
> >
> > I have few q's about kwallet:
> >
> > 1. When I open kwallet, it appear two red folders: Form Data and
> > Password. Below there is a tree "Folder Entry" that has: My Binary
> > Data, Map, Passwords and Unknown, right?? Can some explain to me what
> > are those for?
> >
> > 2. Is there a good tutorial that I can read as the help that comes
> > with kwallet is minimum.
>
> As Derek wrote in his mail, 'Either it records them automatically when you're
> using wallet-aware KDE apps, like Konqueror, or I open up the wallet, choose
> a key of my own devising, and enter name/value pairs as necessary.'
>
> So kwalletmanager doesn't fit your needs I would say.
>
> revelations stucks some limitations which don't cope your workflow. E.g. it
> doesn't allow to define categories other that those predefined. So you
> med-card data can't be stord in revelation.
>
> I had a closer look to other tools and found zsafe wich seems to have what you
> are looking for. The only limitation of zsave is not alowing more than 6 data
> fields per entry.
>
> zsafe
> Description: Password manager with encryption
>  ZSafe is a password manager.  Passwords can be stored into user defined
>  categories. The password file will be encrypted by using a secure RC2
>  mechanism.
>
>  ZSafe makes a fine standalone application with features such as import
>  and export, encrypted storage, etc.
>
>  But one of the added benefits is that it is built from the same source
>  code as the ZSafe program for the Sharp Zaurus line of PDAs.  Thus,
>  you can use the same program and work with the same files on your
>  desktop as you can on your PDA.  This program uses the same on-disk
>  format as the Zaurus version.
>
> Give it a try, IMO it has most of what you are looking for.
> :-)
>
>
>
> regards,
> thomas
>
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First, I really appreciate that you spent the time to do this work.
Second, I will follow your advise and give it a try. I think I can
cope with six fields.

Thank you

-- 
OOzy