Lol I'm new to it as well so will pass on this for now. You are supposed
to be able to have names and passwords, credit cards and the like
automatically stored on your mac and/or iOS device as well as the cloud.
These are stored in what is called Keychain. When the data is encrypted
it means it's in a format that none other than the account holder can
retrieve the data. The rest will see nothing but garbage. The stronger
the encryption the more secure. Apple doesn't say what encryption they
use but it sure sounds like the maximum encryption possible. Hope this
helps.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 22/06/2014 18:05, Daniel McGee wrote:
I'm just wondering, how does this work between Mac and IOS devices alike?
I was thinking about using it but was worried about passwords being for lack of a better
term, "discoverable."
Guess I'm the paranoid type. lol
Seriously though, I'd like to give this feature of iCloud the benefit of a doubt so if
you could do your best to describe maybe how you use it and from that, I can see if its
going to be of any use to me. Finally, you mentioned the data being
"encrypted." I've heard of this term in the past but what does it actually mean
in simple english.
Thanks
Daniel
On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:28, Christopher Hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everybody
I want to tell you about this seemingly useful feature of iCloud called
Keychain. This allows you to securely upload your confidential data such as
passwords and credit cards to the cloud. For the paranoid let me assure you
that the information presented during setup assures that all data is encrypted
and cannot be read by Apple. Alternatively you can simply not use it grin. Also
during setup you are required to set a security code and phone number if you
have one so you can receive a message when approving new devices for Keychain.
Once set up and you have autofill enabled in Safari any of the above data will
be uploaded to iCloud with your concent. You can also view the saved passwords
and delete any or all at your leisure. After all that I now have Keychain setup
on both my iPhone 4s running 7.1.1 and late 2011 Macbook Pro running 10.9.3
Mavericks set up for Keychain. I don't know why I refused to use it at first
now since the process from the word go is heavily involved befor
e it can be used.
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www.hadley.edu
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