[X Newbies] decrypting keychains

[W Lane]

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 01:03  PM, cricket wrote:

> The reason you get the warning dialog when you upgrade your system is 
> that keychain keeps track of which applications have access to which 
> keychain items -- and when you upgrade, the application has changed 
> and it is no longer 'trusted'. For example, would you want it to be 
> possible to write a program, name it 'Mail', and have it snag all your 
> Mail passwords?
>
> While I agree that the dialog is confusing and maybe annoying, there 
> is a reason for it to be doing this. You don't want other applications 
> to be able to use passwords that are only intended to be used by one 
> program.
>
> By the way, this is not specific to Mail, but to any application that 
> uses the keychain as a means to securely store passwords.
>

Further to Cricket's post, I find that this dialog box frequently 
appears after upgrading/installing software. Running Repair permissions 
seems always to make it go away again.

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William Lane
Calgary, Canada
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