In gnome-keyring we use PKCS#11 for the storage of keys and certificates. PKCS#11 is standard sort of a plugin API that allows drivers or software to provide key storage and crypto algorithms to an application.
libgck is a GObject wrapper of PKCS#11. Still pretty low level but …

I gave a talk on Wednesday about using a common certificate and key store across the desktop and using common widgets for crypto bits.

Sadly the talk was at the same time as a big release team announcement/talk. Notwithstanding more people came than I expected.

The slides are here …

I’ll be attending GUADEC for the first time. Not only that but I’ll be giving a talk. I’m a bit nervous, but excited!

The talk is about integrating various applications using keys and certificates to use a common key storage.

Currently each application puts their certificates and …

I’ve contributed to another open source project, Postgresql. My first contribution made it into version 9.0.

I worked on the samenet and samehost host based access control feature, which lets you grant database access to hosts on the physical subnets that the postgresql server is attached to.

Previously …