On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:04:53PM -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
On Apr 3, 2005 10:12 PM, Kees Cook kees@outflux.net wrote:
To store the triplets, these functions use the registry:
Registry Layout: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Crypt\ProtectData\Map[index] Cipher: HEX string Entropy: HEX string DataDescription: WCHAR Plain: HEX string
I'll have to be honest that I haven't looked over the code yet, but I do have a concern. Do these values have to be stored under Software\Wine? That location is for wine-specific configuration options and not api use, unless I'm mistaken. Do we know if this data is stored in the registry in windows, and if so where is it stored? (because I know it's not Software\Wine ;-)
Windows doesn't store the results anywhere: it's just a symmetric crypto function. Since we don't know the function, we have to store the original data somewhere so we can return it later. Since this is entirely a Wine-only implementation of the "encryption", I wanted to put it somewhere in the registry totally separate from all the other keys. Within the Wine tree seemed like the best place.