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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: Selective encryption
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d530ab845d79bfc0ea0e9298f6057ba6@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2bqcna4hf.fsf@newartisans.com>


On Aug 31, 2007, at 21:28, John Wiegley wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> I do think this would be a useful feature.  Some properties I'd find 
>> useful:
>>
>> - Use symmetric encryption
>>
>> - Be able to recognize if an entry is encrypted
>>
>> - Leave the headline of the entry alone and only encrypt the text 
>> below it
>> and the subtree, if present
>>
>> - Support something like a CRYPT tag, leading to automatic encryption 
>> when
>> the file is saved, to make sure encrypted entries are never saved in 
>> clear
>> text.
>>
>> - Use only a single password per file, so once one entry is decrypted,
>>   others will open without an additional password prompt.
>>
>> Something like this.
>
> Yes, this is just what I'm thinking too, though I'd like the option of 
> binding
> different CRYPT tags to different keys or passwords.  So, I could have
> WORK_CRYPT, HOME_CRYPT, etc., and each would have its own separate 
> protection.
> This would allow multiple people to have their own private regions 
> within the
> same org-mode file.

Excellent idea, I did not think about this possibility.

> I should be able to create an external module for this that does not 
> affect
> org.el at all, but just adds keybindings to org-mode-map and 
> after-save-hook.

Cool.  Please do!

I have tried to read the allout documentation about it and found
it entirely undigestible for the cryptographically uninitiated.
I hope you can explain it better.

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-01 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31  3:10 Feature request: Selective encryption John Wiegley
2007-08-31 13:34 ` John Rakestraw
2007-08-31 14:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-08-31 15:26   ` John Rakestraw
2007-08-31 19:28   ` John Wiegley
2007-09-01 10:29     ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-09-02  8:20     ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-02 20:14       ` John Wiegley
2007-09-03  1:00         ` Xavier Maillard
2007-08-31 21:11   ` Austin Frank
2007-09-01  5:10     ` Anupam Sengupta
2007-09-01  6:54       ` Austin Frank
2007-09-03  1:00         ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-04  4:49       ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-05  1:00         ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-05  4:18           ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-10  1:00             ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-03  1:00     ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-02  8:20   ` Xavier Maillard
2007-08-31 15:00 ` Bastien
2007-09-02  8:20   ` Xavier Maillard
2007-08-31 15:23 ` Scott Jaderholm
2007-09-02  8:21   ` Xavier Maillard

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