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diff --git a/content/technical/goals-of-the-keyring-and-seahorse-projects.md b/content/technical/goals-of-the-keyring-and-seahorse-projects.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efef235 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/technical/goals-of-the-keyring-and-seahorse-projects.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Title: Goals of the Keyring and Seahorse Projects +Date: 2010-10-17 +Tags: technical, security, gnome +Slug: goals-of-keyring-and-seahorse-projects + +<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In an +effort to get better organized, I've put together [a page listing the +goals][] of the [gnome-keyring][] and [seahorse][] projects. </span>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 the desktop. This means laying down a foundation for integrating +crypto into applications easily. We have tons of technically excellent +crypto libraries and security components, but there hasn't been the glue +to tie them together and make them usable in apps. + +<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It's sort +of like what PackageKit or NetworkManager did for their respective +areas. Linux (and other open source OS's are) really great at +networking, but NetworkManager pulled together all the various bits, and +completed missing parts to make it to be usable.</span> + +[<span class="Apple-style-span" +style="font-family: inherit;">http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Goals</span>][a +page listing the goals] + + [a page listing the goals]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Goals + [gnome-keyring]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring + [seahorse]: http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/ |