request: encryption support on file open/save

[Derek Atkins]

Why not just use a crypto filesystem?  PGP (and gpg) are useful for
encrypting files for transmission, but really should not be used for
long-term data storage.  You should be using data-storage encryption
for that.

-derek

dasinck@quepasa.com writes:

> Would it be difficult to wire in hooks so that file open/saving (optionally) goes through gpg decoding/encoding?
> 
> I'd just as soon not leave my financial data laying around unprotected, for some reason.
> 
> Support for either symetric passphrases or full passphrases would be cool.
> 
> I can do this by hand, but it seems so clumsy that way (comparatively), and I can't believe that others leave their data floating around in the bare.
> 
> Gnucash rocks, but you knew that.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> David
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