[Nepomuk] Indexing encrypted filesystems

[Vishesh Handa]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning to start the work on indexing the encrypted filesystems.
>

This is going to be a little hard.


>
> There are some special needs in this case:
> - the filesystem is similar to removable media in the sense that the
> fs can be mounted/unmounted.
>

Does Solid know about it? Cause we use Solid in order to detect removable
file systems.


> - the difference to removable media is that it is always mounted at
> the same location (doesn't need to be, but it is the same for any fs)
> - it needs to store less meta-data than the normal indexing process
> (contents for example)
>

Super hard. Would require changing a lot of stuff. Plus, you'll need to
define what exactly you mean by 'less'.

I suppose we could filter some of the stuff based on the url. You'll have
to add the relevant code in
kde-runtime/nepomuk/services/fileindexer/indexer/*


> - maybe later: store the meta-data in some encrypted form.
>

How can we do that? Encrypt the entire virtuoso repository?


>
> First, any thoughts on this?
>
> Second, can you give me some pointers as to where is the
> removable-media detection code located so that I don't need to dig for
> it?
>

Well, it's mostly located in
kde-runtime/nepomuk/services/storage/removeablemedia*


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