Category Archives: Keychain

Why passwords aren’t always the right answer.

Posted on 2010-04-29 by Graham

I realised something yesterday. I don’t know my master password. Users of Mac OS X can use FileVault, a data protection feature that replaces the user’s home folder with an encrypted disk image. Encrypted disk images are protected by AES-128 … Continue reading →

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Integrating SSH with the keychain on Snow Leopard

Posted on 2010-03-08 by Graham

Not much movement has occurred on projects like SSHKeychain.app or SSHAgent.app in the last couple of years. The reason is that it’s not necessary to use them these days; you can get all of the convenience of keychain-stored SSH passphrases … Continue reading →

Posted in Encryption, Keychain, Mac, ssh | 8 Comments

On default keychain settings

Posted on 2009-04-19 by Graham Lee

After my presentation at NSConference there was a discussion of default settings for the login keychain. I mentioned that I had previously recommended some keychain configuration changes including using a different password than your login password. Default behaviour is that … Continue reading →

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