Privacy and passwords

[Josh Sled]

David Lee Lambert <lamber45 at msu.edu> writes:
> That said,  it should be easy to implement for the XML file. Right now,  the 
> GNUcash file is compressed XML with a "gnc-v2" root element.  Someone could 
> define a new "gnc-v2-encrypted" element with "algorithm" and "salt" 

This is more complex than just encrypting the whole file, as `gpg -c
$datafile` would do.  If someone wanted to implement encryption, a symmetric
approach using a "libgnupg" or something would probably be reasonable; it
could prompt for the passphrase on file open/save.

Of course, just setting up an encrypted folder/volume will work better, now,
without modifying gnucash.

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