Privacy
Jody Goldberg
jody at gnome.org
Tue Mar 16 09:41:03 CST 2004
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:28:19AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:49:51PM +0000, Charles Goodwin was heard to remark:
> > Does libgsf offer encryption transparently to applications?
> >
It doesn't at thistime, but it's certainly not impossible or even
terribly hard to envision supporting it.
> Yes, this was discussed to death on the gnucash mailing lists.
> -- encryption is not enough if your kid can still delete your data files.
> The point is really access control, not encryption per se.
Yes and no. There are valid use cases for both sorts of issues.
Encryption and authentication play a role when transfer documents
over untrusted links. Secure storage mediums are orthoganal to
this.
> -- one should stick to OS-provided security mechanisms for many good reasons
Agreed.
> -- yes, one could run multiple x servers on different desktops using
> ctrl-alt-PFn to toggle between them and use xlock on these,
> but this is wasteful of RAM, and is not a pretty solution for other
> reasons.
Huh? What does that have to do with the price of yakk droppings ?
We're clearly missing part of this conversation. Can you point us
back to the start of the thread get a feel for what you are trying
to do ?
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