How to change security from blowfish to gpg
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Is it possible to change from blowfish to gpg after installation of Vivaldi? If so how? Is there a guide for how to set up a gpg key for Vivaldi?
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@mogplus8 You are comparing apples with dolphins. What are we talking about anyway? Package managers use gpg to verify a download. Is yours using blowfish?
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@mogplus8 You mean the GNOME keyring/KDEWallet for logins/passwords?
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Thanks for the quick replies, and apologies for the confusion.
What I meant was that when I first installed Vivaldi it asked me if I wanted to use blowfish or gpg key. I don't know much about either of those things, but I'd heard of gpg so I selected that. Then there were no gpg keys for it to use. I'm not exactly sure what the sequence of events after that was, but I found myself back on the same dialog again (I think it might have been the next time I started Vivaldi), so this time I chose blowfish, as the gpg option I couldn't figure out. It asked me for a password and confirmation, and all was good.
The next time I started Vivaldi (after a reboot) it asked me for the password, I entered it, and again all was fine.
However I do a fair bit of rebooting (as I like playing with different distros and have a few installed, so I swap between them a bit) and I thought wouldn't it be good if I didn't have to enter my password for Vivaldi every time I start it. (well, after a reboot anyway.) I thought setting up a gpg key for it might solve that problem, so it might be worth figuring out how to set up a gpg key for Vivaldi, but first I have to change it's security from blowfish to gpg.
Hence the question. And the secondary question about gpg keys.
In further RTFMing I've learned that I think what I'm talking about is indeed the gnome keyring or KDE wallet. I've found that, if the distro is set up to login automatically (without entry of a password) the keyring/wallet is not unlocked, but if a password is entered to login, then it is unlocked (I'm assuming the keyring/wallet password has to be the same as the login password for this to happen. Since I have an awful memory for passwords I always use the same one). In the latter situation Vivaldi does not ask for a password. I've also learned that it is essentially impossible to have automatic login and then have the keyring/wallet automatically unlocked. Fair enough I suppose, it wouldn't be terribly secure to allow that.
I hope the whole issue is now slightly clearer than mud.
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@mogplus8 if you login in your Linux the keyring should be unlocked with the same password if you had not set a different at first keyring setup.
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@mogplus8 If you use autologin in your Linux, you need to enter the keyring unlock password. That is a Linxu Desktop Environment restriction, i guess, but i do not know much.
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hi @mogplus8 , what is your distro? Since you are using blowfish now, try finding the package with the name
kwallet-pam
in your repos, if you install it you won't be needing to give your password again for the browser, assuming you have given it once to log in to your system (and it is the same). -
@DoctorG I use Mint and Gnome desktop most of the time. I've been trying a couple of other distros (Manjaro, Endeavour, Fedora, Debian, Devuan, OpenSuse, MX, and a few others) with KDE mostly. I also use Refind boot manager, and trying to get that to work the way I want it to also involves a lot of rebooting.
synaptic couldn't find kwallet-pam at all, but there are lots of hits for kwallet, including kwalletmanager, which is not installed. I'm assuming it's a KDE tool rather than Gnome. gnome-keyring is installed, which I'm guessing is the Gnome equivalent. libpam-gnome-keyring is also installed, which is the PAM module for gnome-keyring on login (according to the description).
The blowfish password I set for Vivaldi (thus keyring?) is always the same as the login password.