Bug 129672 - Transparent handling of (gpg-) encrypted files
Summary: Transparent handling of (gpg-) encrypted files
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2006-06-22 23:03 UTC by Dirk Heinrichs
Modified: 2023-01-19 11:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Dirk Heinrichs 2006-06-22 23:03:01 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I know I can decrypt files by simply clicking them in konqueror. However, this creates a decrypted copy of the file on disk, which I then have to click on again to open it in the corresponding application. And, if I forget to re-encrypt the new version afterwards, the encryption is useless.

With this in mind, it would be very nice if, after clicking an encrypted file, kde would ask wether I want to save the result to disk or open with an appropriate application (just like when downloading something).

If I choose to open the file, the application should remember that the file was encrypted and should encrypt again when I save.

And of course, there should be an option in the file save dialog to allow the user to encrypt newly created files right from within the application, w/o ever saving an unencrypted version to disk (even when there was one with the same name, it should be deleted). In this case, default should be to encrypt to self, but the user should be asked for additional keys.
Comment 1 Dirk Heinrichs 2012-01-28 13:21:55 UTC
After 5½ years, I'd like to ask what happened to this wish?
Comment 2 Dirk Heinrichs 2012-07-13 18:33:27 UTC
So KDE doesn't want to make handling of encrypted files more transparent?
Comment 3 fire f. 2018-06-13 08:11:02 UTC
1. full disk encryption achieves your goal
2. Dolphin service menues are quite handy to handle those crypto tasks now

Seems, this WISH can be set to "resolved".
Comment 4 Dirk Heinrichs 2018-06-13 15:31:35 UTC
Errh, no. It's still not transparent. What this whish is about is that I can, for example, right-click an encrypted text file and open it in kate. The system should then ask me for my passphrase and decrypt it before passing it to kate, so that I don't need to take care of the manually decrypting it and removing the decrypted copy afterwards if I just wanted to read the file.
Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2018-06-27 22:28:24 UTC
What does 'kmimetypefinder5' return when faced with such an encrypted file?
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2023-01-19 11:48:35 UTC
Dirk is still the only one asking for this? Then let's close it