From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tramp and crypted files (was: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?) Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:01:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <865zd1h3ru.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <875zd15rze.fsf@gmx.de> <87wo5gjfbr.fsf@gmx.de> <87eermkdov.fsf@gmx.de> <87r1vlipg4.fsf@gmx.de> <86lflrttxn.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <874ksdhdmp.fsf_-_@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="82432"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, ndame@protonmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 06:02:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jatSp-000LJn-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 06:02:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32976 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatSo-0006lU-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 00:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatS6-0005uz-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 00:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatS4-0004rF-Sj; Tue, 19 May 2020 00:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jatS1-0005AL-1B; Tue, 19 May 2020 00:01:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874ksdhdmp.fsf_-_@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Mon, 18 May 2020 10:05:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250867 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > As I said the other thread, we could create a new connection method > "nextcloud-crypt" which does the job. A user could decide whether she > uses "nextcloud" or "nextcloud-crypt" when accessing a given file. This > could happen even in parallel for different files on the same server. That could work -- but it is limited to nextcloud only. I am thinking of this as an option to offer for any and all kinds of remote machines. > I believe we shall find a way to encrypt/decrypt > the file name with the same passphrase as the contents of the file(s); > by this we wouldn't need to keep a local mapping file. The encrypted > file name could be adapted by base64 then, in order to make it fit to > the file system's naming conventions. I didn't think of that one, but it sounds good. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)