Bug 108154 - Provide an encrypted IO slave where user can store files securely
Summary: Provide an encrypted IO slave where user can store files securely
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: kioslave (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2005-06-26 11:39 UTC by Nicholas Allen
Modified: 2018-04-16 19:24 UTC (History)
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Description Nicholas Allen 2005-06-26 11:39:14 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)

It would be great if KDE had an IO slave that would allow the user to store files and directories safely. The way I imagine it to work is the slave (lets say called "safe:/...") would be pointed to a file through another IO slave that would then be decrypted (asking user for the password they used to create it) and displayed to the user like any other directory. They could drag files into the safe area and so on.

This would be great for storing files on USB disks so that not just anyone can read them but also to improve security in the users own home directory.

Perhaps kwallet can then be written to work through this IO slave too?
Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2005-11-16 20:58:29 UTC 
Possible duplicate of Bug 101791?
Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2005-11-16 21:00:50 UTC 
If this is implemented, please use a standard encryption toolkit such as GnuPG and gpg-agent, and allow both symmetric and public-key ciphers.
Comment 3 George Staikos 2005-11-16 22:07:33 UTC 
   This could easily and quickly be developed with KWallet as a backend.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 19:24:36 UTC 
We have Plasma Vault for this now in Plasma 5.12.