[ANN] Encrypted Credential Store for Windows

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 00:23 -0500, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> I'd like to announce a new project called bzr-wincrypt, a credential
> store for Bazaar that uses Windows's CryptoAPI to store and retrieve
> encrypted passwords.
> 
> To install, go to your Bazaar plugins directory and:
> 
> bzr branch lp:bzr-wincrypt wincrypt_credential_store
> 
> To use:
> 
> C:\> bzr wc-register <scheme> <host> <user>
> Password: <your password>
> 
> <scheme> should be something like 'http' or 'ftp'. It won't work for ssh
> or sftp since Bazaar requires the use of an ssh-agent for those schemes.
> 
> <host> must be the exact host used in the branch URL that requires
> authentication.
> 
> The encrypted password is stored in the wincrypt.conf file in your
> Bazaar config directory. The encrypted form is supposedly only
> decrypt-able by the same logged in user on the same machine.
> 
> The plugin should be compatible with Windows 2000 or newer and has been
> tested with bzr 2.2.1 on Windows 7 x64.
Wow, neat!

I'm wondering how much work there is to do to support caching of (known
valid) credentials from within bzr core. I'd be very interested in
implementing something like that for gnome-keyring.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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