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

[Fred Bone]

On 10 September 2024 at 14:09, R Losey said:

> Well, but think about it... after the password is entered, THEN what? The
> "correct" password would have to be stored somewhere so that GnuCash could
> verify what is entered is correct, and clearly saving the password in
> clear text is not secure. Because the software is open source, anyone
> could read the steps taken to secure the password, and that would be a
> huge help in breaking the password.

Clearly you don't know anything about how password protected files are 
handled.

The password is NOT stored anywhere. It doesn't need to be. So there is 
no code taking "steps to secure the password".

The program doesn't need to "verify what is entered is correct", beyond 
attempting to use it to decrypt the data. That either works or it 
doesn't.