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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Feature request: Selective encryption
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:04:59 +0200
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On Aug 31, 2007, at 5:10, John Wiegley wrote:

> I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but one feature I'd like to 
> see is
> the ability to hit a keystroke and have the current outline entry 
> encrypted or
> decrypted.  allout.el does this now (although I find the implementation
> somewhat horrendous).
>
> Would others like to see this?  How would you like it to work?

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.

- Carsten