New keychain format for Wi-Fi syncing?
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manny
I don't think I have heard anyone say. Great question.
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MikeT said in a post in this thread:
1Password 4 automatically imports your data into a secure internal format with all the latest security improvements. When you turn on either iCloud and Wi-Fi sync, it'll export the new cloud keychain format that'll use the same security improvements.
Stephen
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Thanks @Stephen_C
Makes sense as the old format is only for Dropbox no I dusted the cob webs off. Its used there for a data conduit between different versions. So a wifi sync makes sense to use the new format. As it doesn't need the other as a conduit, much like iCloud doesn't.
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Hi @manny,
It's the same format between Wi-Fi and iCloud, the items are encrypted into 16 band files (same structure as the cloud keychain format AKA iCloud, uses all the latest security protocols) and then pushed to the other side. The other side process the data within the bands and go through it one item at a time, since it needs to skip over unchanged items and only merge in the changes.
It's the same process as the iCloud sync, only instead of writing our own Wi-Fi sync server to push the bands across, we avoid all the networking code and just simply write to our own special 1Password folder within the iCloud directory. OSX's iCloud subsystem handles the syncing for us.
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