encrypted file integration into KDE

[Matthias Wieser]

ralsina at kde.org wrote:

> I was thinking: it would be great to have the possibility to have
> encrypted on-disk storage for KDE apps, but to do it nicely, it would
> hae to be available for all apps.
> 
> For example, this should allow both encrypted kjots/knotes (for
> example, for password info for netadmin types) and kword docs, or even
> encrypted images visible only on konqueror/kview!.
> 
> Anyone has ideas on how this could be integrated?

What about using encrypted filesystems? This works with most modern linux 
distributins out of the box.
For example you may mount your crypto FS under ~/crypto and put your mail 
folder and adress book there.


Solaris and other KDE platforms may have similar crypto support.

Cheers,

Matthias


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