encrypted file integration into KDE

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 27 April 2002 20:13, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, George Staikos wrote:
> Well, then it is now a matter of finding a decent random generator
> somewhere...

What about /dev/random?

> >    Does this CLI tool deal with headers added to the file?  I don't
> > see how we can encrypt files without adding a header, and I'll be
> > impressed to see that this thing can jump over headers
> > automatically.  Or do we encrypt and then base64 encode the way PGP
> > does?

Why don't you simply use the OpenPGP standard? Please don't reinvent the 
wheel. The huge advantage of using OpenPGP (through GnuPG resp. gpgme) 
for encryption is that files encrypted in an OpenPGP compliant manner 
can be decrypted by every other program that supports OpenPGP. So 
please don't implement a KDE specific thing which can't be processed 
outside of KDE.

BTW, OpenPGP programs usually don't base64 encode encrypted files. But 
it's possible to put the OpenPGP data in an ASCII armor (via base64 
encoding).

Regards,
Ingo

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