Whenever I open the third party Runescape launcher Bolt, it requests KDE wallet access. I don’t give it access, and everyone says it’s a reliable app. Is it just behaving oddly?

  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    11 hours ago

    KDE wallet is the storage for encryption keys. All apps that uses encryption or certificates should ideally use the os storage.

  • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    16 hours ago

    encryption. i dont know anything about the launcher but anything requiring encryption pops it up for me.

    • godlessworm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      15 hours ago

      thanks, could you happen to explain a bit more? for example, what does the runescape client have to do with encryption? in case i don’t want anyone else to be able to access my runescape account that’s logged into the bolt client?

      • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
        24·
        15 hours ago

        Just a guess, but is it saving your RuneScape account information in your KDE wallet?

          • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
            6·
            6 hours ago

            That is certainly possible, but I think the usual flow is for KDE wallet to handle the actual security stuff and the application just gets the credentials

            • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Cool. I know mine stores my SMB credentials for my NAS, and Signal seems to store the key to decrypt the database at rest. When looking in at the values, its usually the bare minimum. I am far from well-read on it though.