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Nighpher

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 13

Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

I'm trying to create a new wallet that would be encrypted with my gpg key, but I haven't been able to do so. It just asks me to enter the password for the new wallet. So has gpg encryption support for wallets not yet been ported to KF5???

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

Hi Nighpher,

for me it works just fine, you must ensure to have at least one fully trusted gpg key suitable for encryption.
Upstream also provides a good documentation on how to create a new wallet with GPG encryption and on how to convert an old Blowfish encrypted one: https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeutils … ction.html

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Nighpher

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 13

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

It just doesn't show up for me. Are you using the kwalletmanger-git from the AUR? Or are you using the KDE4 version of kwalletmanager? Do I need to install kgpg for it to work?

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

Ooops, sorry, I thought you were talking about kwallet only and not of kwalletmanger.
I confirm that the KF5 version of kwalletmanger does not allow to use the gpg backend, even tough it should support it: in fact if you read the TODO list provided in the sources of kwalletmanger-git, you find that they are developing also a tool to help the conversion from Blowfish to GPG.

Things left:

Backend:
- test zSeries
- refactor the hashes to make it efficient

Integration:
- Cookie jar

Future ideas:
- Make it a kpart

GPG
- Provide a backend conversion tool to help switching from blowfish to GPG or viceversa

I will continue to investigate on the problem.

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arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,313

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

GPG support requires kwallet to be compiled against the gpgmepp framework, which doesn't have a stable release yet. You can try the -git versions from AUR, although that will probably require upgrading all KF5 packages to their git version.

Nighpher

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 13

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

Oh okay, that makes sense. Thanks arojas and mauritiusdadd, I guess there's no harm in waiting for the stable release!

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: Does Kwallet (KF5) support GPG encrypted wallets??

Yes, just found the bug report but it seem I have been too slow
Thank you arojas for the info and for your hard work!

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-02-18 13:01:40)

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