Bug 355586

Summary: Create new archive with encryption preselected via command line
Product: [Applications] ark Reporter: Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component: generalAssignee: Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: elvis.angelaccio
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gregor Mi 2015-11-19 13:03:48 UTC
Background
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Currently, it is not quite straightforward for the regular user to encrypt one or more files.

E.g. one way is to
1) Right-click on a folder or set of files in dolphin
2) Select Compress...
3) Select Compress To...
4) Select 7-zip archive from the Filter dropdown
5) Check the "Protect the archive with a password" option
6) Enter the password
7) Click save

Goal
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It would be nice if KDE/Plasma had a service menu for files and folders to specifically create an encrypted archive. Encrypted 7-zip archives have reasonably strong encryption, I think. So, the above-mentioned process could be simplified to this:

1) Right-click on a folder or set of files in dolphin
2) Select Actions...  (which is more intuitive then Compress...)
3) Select "Encrypt to archive file"
--> the Ark save dialog is opened with 7-zip archive preselected from the Filter dropdown
--> and "Protect the archive with a password" option checked
4) Enter the password
5) Click save

Next steps
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To realize the goal, I suggest to extend the ark command line interface with an option to have 7-zip with password encryption preselected in the ark Save dialog.
Comment 1 Gregor Mi 2015-11-19 13:10:46 UTC
"Currently, it is not quite straightforward for the regular user to encrypt one or more files." To be more precise: the use-case is here is a simple ad-hoc encryption to send one or files via email or shared folder to another person.
Comment 2 Elvis Angelaccio 2015-11-20 10:44:57 UTC
I agree, already got some feedback about the need for some kind of "Compress with password" service menu entry. My idea is to show a custom dialog where the user just type a password and, optionally, choose one of the format that allows encryption (where 7z would probably be the default selection).
Comment 3 Elvis Angelaccio 2018-01-28 11:05:53 UTC
*** Bug 388572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***