Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.4) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux It would be useful to have the ability to encrypt journal entries (hooks to kgpg perhaps). (If there's somewhere relatively simple to start, I might attempt it myself, but I don't know the korganiser codebase at all).
Why would you encrypt journal entries, but not calendar or todo entries? Why would you encrypt them at all? You don't intend to send them to other people, do you? For encrypted storage it is probably the better solution to use an encrypted file system.
> Why would you encrypt journal entries, but not calendar or todo entries? The calendar contains when I have a meeting with my boss. The journal contains what I think of my boss. Alright not serious example, but the distinction generally holds on level of desired privacy in the respective entries, though you could encrypt all of it I suppose. > Why would you encrypt them at all? Paranoia? There are people with access to the physical hardware that I'd rather not have access to private information. > You don't intend to send them to other people, do you? No, but transfering the file between machines is a distinct possibility. > For encrypted storage it is probably the better solution to use an encrypted file system. Possibly, but I don't have an easy solution to that. As I understand it, encrypted filesystems require the password on mount and are freely available after that. They don't auto unmount themselves after a certain amount of time - whereas discarding a cached passphrase after a few minutes seems quite feasible (kgpg and kmail do this).
Even in real life journal-books and calendars look different. Ever seen the journal books with the (useless) locks? That's because you are supposed to write intimate things into your journal (for instance your sex-life). I admit that I've never set up an encrypted file-system myself, but I would be surprised if this is something a "normal" user should be able to do. This is something a journal-program should be capable of, not something a user should be able to work around. It might even be possible to just store the complete journal-data in kwallet. Should be fairly trivial then to implement this.
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I'm fully with this, intimacy is a key feature a journal must have.
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