Bug 261107

Summary:	Option to view encrypted file without creating a decrypted file on disk
Product:	[Applications] kgpg	Reporter:	Evan Teran <evan.teran>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Rolf Eike Beer <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	giecrilj, info
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Evan Teran 2010-12-23 23:17:11 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

I have a file which has important information in it. So I have chosen to encrypt it with something like: "gpg -c info.txt", which will create an info.txt.gpg.

In order to read it again, I can open it with kgpg, it will prompt for my password and all goes well, but this just creates an info.txt file again, which I can read, almost certainly want to delete shortly after I am done with it.

It would be really nice if there were a feature to view an encrypted file but without a file being created on disk. It seems that you may be able to create a pipe and utilize something like this under the hood to implement it:

"gpg -o some_pipe info.txt.gpg"

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Evan Teran 2010-12-23 23:20:14 UTC

I have noticed the "View File Decrypted" feature, which seems like it is just about what I want, but I have not been able to get it to work with symmetrically encrypted files.

Comment 2 Rolf Eike Beer 2010-12-25 11:16:34 UTC

"kgpg -s encrypted.gpg" should do the trick. Can you please verify if that works for you?

Comment 3 Evan Teran 2010-12-25 21:35:11 UTC

That command seems to assume I want to decrypt using my private gpg key. The file in my example was encrypted using symmetric (password) encryption. So unfortunately, this doesn't work for me.

Comment 4 info 2011-03-05 11:42:54 UTC

i have a problem with kgpg decrypting files.

kgpg -s file_encrypted opens an empty editor without ask for a passphrase

if i write some text in the editor, crypt it and press decrypt button, got an
empty editor.

this with kgpg 4.5.5 and 4.6.0.

Luca.

Comment 5 Rolf Eike Beer 2011-11-30 19:45:12 UTC

*** Bug 264740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Rolf Eike Beer 2012-03-12 21:27:53 UTC

Luca, your problem is likely something different. Can both of you please retry using at least version 4.8.1 and see if those problems are resolved? If not, please also say which GnuPG version you are using.

Comment 7 Christopher Yeleighton 2012-03-22 19:48:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Luca, your problem is likely something different. Can both of you please
> retry using at least version 4.8.1 and see if those problems are resolved?
> If not, please also say which GnuPG version you are using.

In order to view a decrypted file, I load it encrypted and press the Decrypt button in the text viewer window.

Comment 8 Rolf Eike Beer 2012-12-16 19:30:24 UTC

Does this work meanwhile?

Comment 9 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-24 02:24:36 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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Comment 10 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-27 03:42:45 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

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