I’ve been working on smart card integration into Seahorse, and as part of that we need icons for smart cards. I had fun putting together something today:
Obviously not perfect, but I’m happy with the result. The tools and info in gnome-icon-theme are really nice.
At some point …
Listened to Moxie’s talk about Trust Agility and ‘Convergence’. Sounds like a viable candidate for ditching the Certificate Authority mess, or at least part of a solution. Go watch the video if you haven’t already.
I was thinking about how we could implement support for Convergence in GNOME …
So a lot of the work I do doesn’t have any user interface. The best user interface is no user interface, well one that isn’t needed. But recently I’ve been working some tools to view the plethora of certificate and key formats out there. So I couldn …
Just figured out how to build telepathy-qt4 in an alternate prefix and also look for dependencies in that prefix as well. Since I don’t use cmake much these days, figured I’d post this so I could go and look back at it later. Depends on this fix.
PKG_CONFIG_PATH …Went to FOSDEM last weekend. It was a cool and crazy conference: packed rooms, great talks, good friends, much beer. I enjoyed finally meeting the Collabora guys I’m now working with.
I hung out in the absolutely packed security devroom the first day, superbly organized by Martin Paljak from …
Trust assertions are bits of trust information used by applications to make trust decisions about certificates. For example, trust assertions can represent certificate authority anchors, pinned certificate exceptions, or revocation lists. Trust assertions do not represent the trust decision itself, but they’re used in a trust decision.
By using …
I was evaluating use of GObject for small plentiful short-lived objects in libgck. I wanted to see how their performance compared to custom reference counted structures. Turns out it’s not as bad as I imagined.
The speed difference on my system, with a simple test program, ended up being …
In an effort to get better organized, I’ve put together a page listing the goals of the gnome-keyring and seahorse projects. It’s all broken down into tasks, plans, and what’s already done.
The basic jist of it is to make crypto and security a usable experience on …
I’ve been working on some specifications for storage of ‘trust’. This a sufficiently vague and abstract concept to require a hoity toity name: Trust Assertions
Trust assertions are used to assign an explicit level of trust to a public key or certificate. I’ll just refer to certificates below …
The new certificate and key view widgets are now merged into gnome-keyring master. They live in libgcr: a library for crypto UI widgets and crypto helpers.
The goal of the widgets are to have a simple mode, where only the information needed for a user to uniquely identify a certificate …