Bug 212632

Summary: Kontact does not provide an encryption option for personal data store e.g. in the address book
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: Kai Franken <kai.franken>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kai Franken 2009-11-01 16:25:18 UTC 
Version:           1.11.1 (using 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 106", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.29-0.1-pae

Basically the short description already tells the full story. If you use Kontact on a notebook you might wish to protect all data trusted e.g. to the address book or stored in KMail against unauthorised viewers in case your machine is "found" by someone else. The only solution I have found so far is to encrypt a complete partition. To me this seems oversized and too time-consuming a solution since I assume that Kontact stores all data to a single file which could easily be encrypted (like a text file in OOo-Writer).
Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2010-12-08 13:40:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223048 ***