encrypted file integration into KDE

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 27 April 2002 07:59, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday April 26, 2002 10:04, ralsina at kde.org wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > While wandering around, I found a few libs that provide nice and
> > simple usage of rather strong symmetrical password algorithms.
> >
> > 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?
>
> Move kpgp from libkdenetwork to kdelibs?

Kpgp currently only handles text data and does not support symmetric 
encryption. Furthermore it calls the encryption programs in a very 
inefficient way. I will change the latter but IMO it would be better to 
write a new small KDE lib which uses GnuPG through gpgme for symmetric 
encryption.

Regards,
Ingo (maintainer of Kpgp)

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