Bug 402728

Summary: "High Security Mode" that writes all config data into encrypted databases rather than plaintext configuration files
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kconfig Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: generalAssignee: Matthew Dawson <matthew>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdelibs-bugs-null, kr, laura.stern
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nate Graham 2018-12-31 14:07:18 UTC 
This is an idea for KDE's Privacy goal: https://community.kde.org/Goals/Privacy_Software

Essentially, when "High Security Mode" is turned on in some KCM somewhere, kconfig would write configuration data to encrypted databases rather than plaintext files. Perhaps it could even be a single big database rather than individual app-specific databases, since even that would leak which apps were being used.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-12-31 14:07:57 UTC 
*** Bug 310226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Laura David Hurka 2021-05-13 13:53:26 UTC 
Why not “[x] encrypt home partition” ?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-05-13 14:13:42 UTC 
For the benefit of people using KDE software on a non-encrypted home partition, I suppose.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-10-24 14:16:09 UTC 
In retrospect, people with this use case would indeed probably be better served by simply encrypting the entire home partition.