[GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

[David G. Pickett]

 Of course you need to select an algorithm in a compatible library, of which there are many.  I was just responding to the idea that a unchanging common password would be hard coded is open source, a very odd idea.  If you used triple DES, for example, all the open source would show is that you used triple DES and got a password from the console.

I have coded things like this, and found several ways to keep the password out of the code, like asking the user for it at the start.  GnuCash would hold it for use when it saved, so I suppose you might find it in a crash dump file, if it crashed, and a core dump was generated, and that got shared into an untrusted space, like with a shared folder as current working directory.
    On Monday, September 9, 2024 at 09:34:38 PM EDT, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Not just a pop-up.  All the security stuff would have to be added too, and the developers have made it abundantly clear that they do not want to do that when a huge development effort would be required to do it right.  From the rest of this thread you can see that no size fits all anyway.  They are confident that we users can find a solution outside of their bailiwick.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

Nobody suggested putting a password in gnucash, just a pop up dialog to ask the user for it.
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