From: Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Symmetric encryption with org-crypt.el?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:08:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F32C41.4030205@calicojack.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2294DF1E-64C4-4C98-B890-74B1C1B6F582@uva.nl>
Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I don't think anyone has done this, but I would certainly welcome
> someone taking up org-crypt.el, adding different options like you
> suggest. I'd be happy to work out the UI, but I do not know anything
> about encryption or Emacs packages supporting it.
>
> - Carsten
Thanks Carsten, I know a tiny bit about encryption, but I'm no guru. I
took a quick look at easypg which org-crypt appears to use, and being a
frontend to GnuPG it seems to support the use of symetric keys.
I'm convinced that it should be a trivial job, but I'm not familiar
enough with any of the packages to know precisely what needs done.
If I find some more time, in the next few weeks, I might take another look.
R.
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Rick Moynihan wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use a symmetric cipher with org-crypt.el? I'd
>> really like to encrypt certain outlines and encode/decode them on
>> several machines without worrying about managing public/private keys.
>>
>> I can see how using public key crypto might be benefecial when
>> sharing files between several parties, but for the case where a
>> single user simply wants to synchronise org files between various
>> machines (and never store/transmit sensitive data unencrypted) then
>> a symmetric cipher seems preferable due to its lower overhead.
>>
>> Has anyone done this?
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 9:43 Symmetric encryption with org-crypt.el? Rick Moynihan
2008-10-06 16:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-10 21:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-13 11:08 ` Rick Moynihan [this message]
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