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tsuyu
tsuyu
in iOS
It seems like that I can not search the whole fields just title in iPhone and iPad. Will the update version provide? by the way mSecure can do that.
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  • brenty
    brenty
    edited November 2010
    [quote name='tsuyu' timestamp='1290582028' post='15807']

    It seems like that I can not search the whole fields just title in iPhone and iPad. Will the update version provide? by the way mSecure can do that.

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    If by "whole fields" you mean all of the data within a login item, I believe it is because this information is encrypted until it is accessed. The keychain (including all login items, accounts, etc.) is not decrypted wholesale when you enter your Master Password/PIN. Information within each item is decrypted only as needed, e.g. when you use it to log in to a website.



    While it would be more convenient in some cases to be able to search the full contents of your keychain, this would require that all information be stored in the clear, either on the hard drive/flash memory or in RAM (upon authenticating,) and this would be highly insecure, to put it mildly.



    It's hard to please everyone. There is a [url="http://forum.agile.ws/index.php?/topic/1958-all-information-is-not-encrypted/"]great thread[/url] which goes into more detail about this issue, but from quite another angle. Some people would prefer to have even less data stored unencrypted, even though that would result in even more limited searchability. (Is that a word?) <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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