Activity encryption (was: activities save and restore)

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 20 December 2012, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > (to me even raises another question about if we still want to keep the
> > activity encryption since isa basically unmaintained, not used and can't
> > work reliably due how nepomuk works)
> 
> This is something I was planning to bring up as well.
> 
> While I *really* like the idea of the encrypted activities feature, there
> are big issues with it.
> 
> I don't know whether it should be removed, rethought (for both the desktop
> and active) or something totally different.
> 
> What I do know is that it brought a lot of complexity to kamd that would
> otherwise be totally unnecessary, but it also brought some other nice
> things as side-effect (activity-dedicated directories).

yep, i like it too.
tough I'm not sure is the right level to do it, besides adding complexity, is 
pretty hard to ensure that all the information doesn't leak somewhere (and as 
for now really only files can be moved in an encrypted area)

one thing that may be done is to change the concept in a more lightweight 
version, ie a simple ui for encrypted folders, and would be those encrypted 
folders a resource connected to the activity, wouldn't be the whole activity 
to be "encrypted" (because isn't really anyways). Could be in that way become 
a bit less invasive in kactivitymanagerd? (or be even separed from?)

for actual data safety of everything i really don't see much other ways than 
real multiuser with encrypted home...

Cheers,
Marco Martin