[tahoe-dev] can the web browser be used securely to manage your data? Re: Tahoe-LAFS is widely misunderstood

[James A. Donald]

On 2011-02-04 1:20 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>    firefox is too big to be non-scary to handle secrets.  sometimes it's
>    too hard to resist, but tahoe doesn't feel architecturally like one of
>    those times.

What is needed is a translator, a system that holds secrets on one 
particular machine, and firefox sees petnames.