Bug 70033

Summary:	Transparent Encryption in Konqueror
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Ryan Vilim <rvilim>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, pwk.linuxfan
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Ryan Vilim 2003-12-10 19:50:06 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.94)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I have an idea for a sort of extention to KDE/Konqueror if it is already possible I sure havn't figured out how to do it and I would be grateful if someone would enlighten me. 

Basically what my idea is is transparent encryption integrated into konqueror. Instead of having to get out gpg to encrypt something why can't I make a folder, and designate it in konqueror as an encrypted folder. When I would do this I would get the option to generate a new key for it. Of course it wouldn't have to use a public key algorithm, a symmetric one would work fine for most purposes. Next whenever I drag something into this folder, it gets encrypted with the key I previously specified automatically and completely transparent to me. Maybe I should specify, when I move it into the folder it comes up with a dialog box asking me what the key is. It then checks the hash of this against the hash of my original key (which it stored when I first created the folder) and would let me save it. When I try to open this folder I get a password prompt, and once I have typed in my password it remembers it for the duration of my time in that folder. 

I am aware that the GPG frontend in the beta versions of kde 3.2 does this however it would be cool to take it ot a further extent. As far as I know, once I have encryped a folder with it I cannot transparently add files to that folder later. 

If noone shows any interest in this, I may look at doing this myself once my exams are finished, but I think this would be a valuable feature for KDE

Comment 1 George Staikos 2003-12-10 19:57:23 UTC

Subject: Re:  New: Transparent Encryption in Konqueror

  You could easily write a kioslave for doing this.  No need to add anything 
special to konqueror.

Comment 2 Thiago Macieira 2003-12-10 22:40:48 UTC

I agree with George here. The description best fits an ioslave.

Comment 3 Ryan Vilim 2003-12-11 01:01:35 UTC

hmm, maybe your right. I think I am going to write that.

Thanks for simplifying it a bit for me I was envisioning a much more complex and far reaching solution :)

Comment 4 Maksim Orlovich 2004-11-12 20:59:19 UTC

*** Bug 33430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 16:11:10 UTC

We have Plasma Vault today, which is a dedicated secure encryption solution that enforces a degree of file segregation (i.e. no confusing encrypted files for non-encrypted files). I think using that makes more sense than adding this to KIO, Konqueror, or Dolphin.