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Re: password safes for mac
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Jul 1 12:33:33 2009
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:03:13 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Cc: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>,
Ivan Krsti?? <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20090630162606.GA1308@Sun.COM>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:26:06AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
| On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:29:48PM -0700, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
| > This would be great if LoginWindow.app didn't store your unencrypted
| > login and password in memory for your entire session (including screen
| > lock, suspend to ram and hibernate).
| >
| > I keep hearing that Apple will close my bug about this and they keep
| > delaying. I guess they use the credentials in memory for some things
| > where they don't want to bother the user (!) but they still want to be
| > able to elevate privileges.
|
| Suppose a user's Kerberos credentials are about to expire. What to do?
What fraction of mac users are using Kerberos?
Adam
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