encrypted file integration into KDE

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:26, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Friday 26 April 2002 10:36 pm, Matthias Wieser wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Encrypted FS need OS/Administrators support while encrypted files can
> be used independent of the OS and are also nice for Email Attachments
> or removable media.

KMail cvs now supports PGP/MIME (and S/MIME). As those are the standards 
for encryption of email attachments they should be used. So for email 
attachments encrypted file integration is not necessary. But of course 
it would be nice for other applications.

Regards,
Ingo

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