[Kmymoney-devel] Android Update and progress

[Eric A. Bonney]

I have been giving this a lot of thought this week and while I would 
love to provide some form of file encryption in the app, if a user is 
worried about that there are a ton of free utilities that allow for easy 
encrypting of single files etc on the device.

I would love to potentially put something in the app that would allow 
for the file to be moved easily back and forth from device to desktop 
and have all the encryption be transparent to the user. That said, right 
now my focus will be on getting the app to a point where the user can 
actually keep track of basic items on their device (add/delete/edit 
payees, accounts, categories and transactions).

 From there I want to move on to some stuff with the schedules and then 
maybe encryption items. I get that it is a big deal and it does need to 
be addressed, but in the mean time there are options for those who are 
worried enough to do so.

I almost have all the CRUD stuff completed for Payees, Accounts and 
Categories which are all very simple. Then the transactions and splits 
before I will need to be done before I can "release" an early beta.

-Eric

On 08/18/2011 10:41 PM, Fernando Vilas wrote:
> On Thursday, August 18, 2011 09:51:33 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> on Wednesday 17 August 2011 16:44:14 Eric A. Bonney wrote:
>>> What methods of encryption does KMM handle already? I am seeing a few
>>> examples and methods in doing some research and it would seem that if
>>> this is going to be implemented into the Android version it should works
>>> seemlessly with KMM. This way when the user moves their data file from
>>> the desktop to the phone and back they don't have to deal with
>>> decrypting the file then moving it and encrypting it again.
>> KMyMoney uses GPG for its encryption functionality.
> The database backend is not encrypted right now. That said, you can put the
> database on a trusted computer with VPN access. Then you could setup a VPN
> client on Android and point the KMM app at it.
>
> You could also look into encrypting the SQLite file, but that would not work on
> other databases. There is also the issue of where the decrypted file is stored
> while in use.
>
>
>
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