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Password storage on Android devices

Password storage on Android devices

Posted Aug 4, 2011 3:38 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: Password storage on Android devices

Hmm I wonder if some sort of key-daemon would be the solution. You start the phone and are asked for the password. It stores the passwords encrypted on disk and in memory.

Programs that need a password ask the key-daemon if they can have it and are granted on a permission basis.

Or better yet.. we make phones kerberos aware and google runs the worlds largest keytab installation :).


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