From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: Selective encryption
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:28:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bqcna4hf.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1d16773688c3f70ccb93211e8d0051a@science.uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri\, 31 Aug 2007 16\:04\:59 +0200")
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.
allout.el goes a long way toward providing all of the above, I just wasn't
fond of the mechanism (I tried porting it straight to org-mode one day, then
stopped). For one thing, I want to use my GnuPG public key for encryption,
not a symmetric cipher. That needs to be configurable.
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.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 19:28 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 [this message]
2007-09-01 10:29 ` Carsten Dominik
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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