On Sunday 10 November 2013 12:07:51 Christoph Feck wrote: > On Sunday 10 November 2013 07:43:12 Abe Masiddo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am considering to use KWallet to store some of my passwords. I > > know that KWallet uses a master password that allows me to > > retrieve my other passwords. How do you store the master > > password? > > The password is stored in your brain. If you forget it, you only > have "brute force" methods to be able to decrypt the wallet again > (not that I know anyone who was successful at cracking it).
Regarding the technical information, the KWallet handbook at http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeutils/kwallet/kwallet.pdf reveals: "The data is encrypted with the Blowfish symmetric block cipher algorithm, the algorithm key is derived from the SHA-1 hash of the password, with a key length of 156 bits (20 bytes). The data into the wallet file is also hashed with SHA-1 and checked before the data is deciphered and accessible by the applications." More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher) Christoph Feck (kdepepo) KDE Quality Team >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
