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Please split GtkSecureEntry into a library
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I'd be nice to have GtkSecureEntry in a separate library so more Gtk
applications can benefit from it's security features. I ended up copying
over the code to krb5-auth-dialog and it seems gnome-keyring took the
code from there too.

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Version
0.7.5

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agx added a project: Feature Request.Apr 2 2009, 6:56 PM
agx set Version to 0.7.5.
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• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Apr 3 2009, 9:39 AM

Too much mainenance work. It is also closely coupled to the secmem stuff. You
better ask the GTK folks to add such a widget.

• werner added a project: Won't Fix.Apr 3 2009, 9:39 AM
agx added a comment.Apr 3 2009, 10:58 AM

The coupling to secmem is why I propsed this for pinentry not for GTK+ itself.

Since GTK1 and Qt pinentries also depend on secmem, so secmem could would have
to move into a lib first or this would be duplicated between GTK+ and pinentry
again.

Since this is security related code not having that many copies around would
really be nice.

neal added a subscriber: neal.Nov 3 2015, 11:52 PM

GtkSecureEntry has been removed from pinentry.

neal closed this task as Resolved.Nov 3 2015, 11:52 PM
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