Passwords & Keys

System utility application for accessing stored passwords and keys.

Participants

AllanDay, DaikiUeno, MichaelCatanzaro

Goals

Primary:

  • View passwords stored by the OS and core GNOME applications
  • Allow finding passwords by search
  • Modify stored passwords

Secondary:

  • View, import and generate SSH keys
  • View, import, generate and sign PGP keys
    • Mostly used for email through Evolution or for signing things it Git
  • Allow manually adding and storing passwords.
    • Use cases: applications that don't store their passwords in the keyring, passwords issued by organizations, that are shared across multiple services.
    • Allow new passwords to be generated
  • Allow different storage backends (eg: smartcards)

Possible additional functionality:

  • Allow detecting and replacing duplicates
  • Indicate the strength of passwords
  • Allow detecting and replacing weak passwords

Relevant Art

Last Pass

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ITbRQj2Z4JjNRsnQCqCNNAY2jfLCXWHQ7WsU0ineuvXgi9otDYMuP5ODmTyxVUOU58kN9LulDg=s640-h400-e365

Dashlane

https://www.dashlane.com/images/mac-android-devices.png

Discussion

Tentative Guidelines

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/passwords-and-keys/passwords-and-keys.png

Comments

See Also

Design/Apps/PasswordsAndKeys (last edited 2019-07-03 19:52:21 by NeilMcGovern)