~/.purple/accounts.xml, cleartext passwordīug report over gnome keyring integration:.epiphany has no way to set a master password.randomly generated triple-DES key in ke圓.db encrypts credentials in signons2.db.Master password (default is empty) encrypts ke圓.db.

epiphany's profile is in ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/įirefox's profile is in ~/.mozilla/firefox//.

the LUKS partition contains the 'default' keyring for Gnome with additional passwords, the keyring password can also be stored in the 'login' keyring or just be empty.

the 'login' keyring contains the password for a LUKS partition on the USB stick, which is automatically decrypted and mounted on login.Use pam-gnome-keyring to decrypt the 'login' keyring stored on the laptop/desktop.Being forced to decrypt the hard drive of a PC during customs (just send the USB stick with somebody else).Usage of the stored credentials on the key without the laptop/desktop system or a password.Usage of the laptop without the USB key or a password.more or less single-signon if the USB key is available.A way to make this possible is the storage of the credentials on an (encrypted) USB stick. Things get more complicated if several different computers are in use, e.g. All of this data is normally stored in the home directory of a user.Īn easy solution is to make the filesystem itself encrypted, see EncryptedFilesystems. People use passwords and secret keys for a lot of different services, e.g., firefox, pidgin, gnome keyring, ssh keys, pgp keys.

Usb key password manager