From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: org-crypt: Secure encrypted message against inadvertent change
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:31:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3216867.MOJ3RImYQA@linux-k2bd.site> (raw)
I'm using org-crypt. All text below a heading with the tag :crypt: becomes
encrypted with saving the file and looks like this:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
hQEOAxn9DjwjX2oYEAQAgLl/58dss1VVgmRb1rGIaNV2I5P+smcDjhWa5/arTMPE
9wjxHUpU/HSflCwnV5609H3J9ZSVubCpaUbV3Da0jnDUJuljFbSqapRym1PW0hFn
ApfLwze3HTj+A3eODf+p3kbDjFnII9Rfn7lWQ/6OmMrisQbvbsWzS3K/crgqu+cD
/j6m3nDURonKGStv5h7sgaSRuLGzqXvHXEnS+d1ad1ZomgTD4abZNvDYt9Y039FE
xYwRphWSBs+vtQ34resZewCa4s7h5SES5j839vQPWI4VyA4uRrfzYATHnHtoxfwA
RQWzUTeS16FFBxnjqqTXGXqH9go25Ovnl1Np9c2H7veH0lQB/hpwGbUJRnYCx5Nd
UlZ/U+aKQJl3aD+ulgOxJhTQNb9ToXxMpwS3FitsZHVh8OaRBLdgjRVFstWw3NhT
RTQ3Og0+ts34iKW+u+2ock/LqiDYFx4=
=+xma
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
I really hope this example will not irritate your email software.
My notebook has one of those large touchpads and once in a while I hit it and
go on with typing, but the cursor shifted to text somewhere else and I'm
adding letters to a completely different paragraph, before I notice and
correct it.
Well, this evening I added some letters inadvertently inside a PGP message,
because the touchpad shifted to cursor to an encrypted paragraph. If I saved
the file, the encrypted paragraph would have become un-decryptable (I tested
this: decrypting no longer is possible).
Unfortunately I won't always realise what happened, e.g. if I don't watch
while dictating into a speech recognition (Dragon Nat. Speak.).
And the encrypted parts are not needed often. So the destroyed PGP message
might make it into my backups and if I try to encrypt it a year later...
Why isn't the text between
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
and
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
read-only as a default ?
Really, an inadvertent change can destroy valuable information and it i
next reply other threads:[~2015-08-23 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-23 21:31 AW [this message]
2015-08-23 22:32 ` org-crypt: Secure encrypted message against inadvertent change gershman
2015-08-23 23:54 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-24 18:42 ` AW
2015-08-26 21:04 ` AW
2015-09-08 14:48 ` Hymie!
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