Moving kgpg to kdeutils [Re: Moving aKtion to kdeblackhole]

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 18 April 2003 14:37, bj at altern.org wrote:
> >Is the padlock icon taken care of yet?  It adds a padlock to the konqueror
> >service menu which is easily confused with the SSL one.  I reported it to
> > the author in the past.
> >
> >George Staikos
>
> Yes, it has been done. I removed all icons from the service menus to
> prevent confusion.
> Another thing is that i could not find an easy way to shred files in KDE.
> So, i added a new wizard in KGpg cvs that allows user to create a shredder
> on his desktop, working in the same way as the trash, but shredding files.
> I don't know if KGpg is the best place to do it or if these feature already
> exists somewhere else, but i think it is a nice think to have on desktop.

Shredding of files is a broken concept that creates a false sense of security 
especially on a desktop system where a file can have been written to disk 
numerous times already (cache / temporary storage). Use an encrypted file 
system instead.

Cheers,
Waldo
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