[Nepomuk] Indexing encrypted filesystems
Martin Steigerwald
Martin at lichtvoll.de
Sat Mar 24 11:04:22 UTC 2012
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Ivan Čukić:
> > Before indexing encrypted filesystems a user security system must be
> > implemented in Nepomuk.
>
> Well, the unfortunate thing is that Plasma Active *needs* stuff in
> nepomuk - at least the type and filename - to be able to work.
>
> And, it needs the encrypted activity data for activities marked as
> private.
>
> That's the reason for indexing encrypted FSs, but keeping only minimal
> meta-data about them.
>
> > Store super secure information in a insecure database is not a good
> > idea ;)
>
> Agreed. So we are not going to store super-secure stuff, just some
> less-than-super-secure things :)
When you store filename and types of files thats IMHO already quite some
information leak.
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