Summary: | KDE programs should allow saving/opening encrypted files | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kfile | Reporter: | Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Mandrake RPMs | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Tomasz Chmielewski
2005-03-18 12:31:49 UTC
Did you know "amor" is the Amusing Misuse Of Resources toy application? Why did you file against it? I guess this would be in kio/kfile, but we'd require some support from kdecore. It would be a nice feature. Of course, people would then forget their passwords and come to us to unlock their important documents, at which time we'd tell them it's their fault. Hmm I was pretty sure I filed a bug/wishreport against "KDE - general KDE problems"... Anyway, I must have done something wrong that it filed against "amor" :) Well, I don't think "people would then forget their passwords and come to us to unlock their important documents" - as they don't ask questions regarding KMail if they forget their pop3 password? And to prevent people "forgetting their password -> coming to us" there could be a pop up window with a check button (don't show again) when saving an encrypted document for the first time, saying: IMPORTANT - Encrypting files and documents This document will be encrypted using 1024 bit alghoritm blah blah... If you forget your password, it is impossible to decrypt this document blah blah... Don't use weak passwords like your name or date of birth, combine digits with small and capital letters etc. This windows could be shown once per application or once per whole system (for that user). Possible duplicate of Bug 108154? If this is implemented, please use a standard encryption toolkit such as GnuPG and gpg-agent, and allow both symmetric and public-key ciphers. Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates. This kind of huge meta-task is not really well-suited for Bugzilla. If implemented, it would surely require dozens of individual Bugzilla tickets to track the work in different places. Thanks for the idea though, and we'll keep it in mind! |