Quicken to GnuCash (Windows) (Charles Day)

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:51:14PM -0800, Charles Day wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 7:44 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:12:03PM +1100, Charles Day wrote:
> > > On Dec 4, 2007 10:33 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think that just highlights what I think the general problem
> > > > is. Gnucash isn't written to secure the data that might be used by
> > > > gnucash. It's written to handle that data. It's up to the user to
> > > > secure that data. Personally, I much prefer securing my own data with
> > > > methods I understand and to my own gut-check-level. Much better than
> > > > (one of) the alternatives -- having the app secure it in some manner I
> > > > don't understand and possibly can't recover it from.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Andrew, why would the application's security methods be a mystery? It's
> > open
> > > source. 

...

> >
> > hmmm... I guess I don't disagree. My point, not well founded, is that
> > security that I set up, I will understand 
...
> > Regardless of my twisted thinking though, I think you are right :)

> >
> Great, so we'll see an encryption feature included in tonight's build?  ;)

heh. ummm... no. ;) So what I meant was that you were right about it
being open source and my concerns about the encryption being
inaccessible if the app somehow blew up were unfounded.

> 
> But seriously, if the flat file format is kept, then something like GPGME
> might be used. If GnuCash suddenly blew a fuse, recovery could be done on
> the command line using GPG itself.
> 
> What is the future of GnuCash's back end? It may not be worth thinking about
> protecting the current flat file via an API if it will soon be replaced by a
> database.
> 

THere is a database backend in the works, you can check it out in the
gda-dev branch. THat is the limit of my knowledge -- it exists.

A

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