[Ml-yokadi] New feature : encryption

Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gateau at free.fr
Wed Aug 26 22:10:55 CEST 2009


Sébastien Renard a écrit :
>>> - NCrypt encryption mechanism need an initial vector *and* a key to
>>> achieve proper encryption. I think that asking two things to user is way
>>> too much (GnuPG required only one). So I put a fix initial vector... Hope
>>> that's not too weak.
>> I hope so as well, but I agree asking for an initial vector would be
>> annoying.
> 
> NCrypt author does not agree with our optimistic approach : 
> http://tachyon.in/pipermail/ncrypt-users/2006-August/000009.html
> 
> Grrr.

On the other hand, I do not see how to do any other way. It would be
interesting to check how encryption is implemented in KWallet or GNOME
keyring.

Aurélien


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