From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mobile-use-encryption
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:59:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F89CA56F-A233-4980-843E-F1C0AF832FD5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmi62x70wkx.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> I am trying to test encryption for MobileOrg via a beta from Richard.
> (We're still playing the 'convince itunes to let you run code on your
> own phone game', so this report is preliminary about what Org itself
> is
> doing.)
>
> I have in .emacs-local.el:
>
> (setq org-mobile-use-encryption t)
> (setq org-mobile-encryption-password "mypasswd")
>
> and I did org-mobile-push. I found that there was an old agendas.org
> that was not encrypted, and it seems that org-mobile-push omits
> agendas.org if org-mobile-use-encryption is t, but still creates it
> when
> nil.
I have not been able to reproduce this.
>
> checksums.dat is in cleartext. This seems ok, but could be a missed
> opportunity for some integrity protection.
I have a technical reason to not encrypt it - so unless there is
someone who really needs it encrypted, I want to keep it like this.
> index.org is in cleartext. The list of file names is of course in the
> webdav area, and that seems not a big deal, but it also contains the
> TODO keyword plan, priority tag list, etc.
This is a good observation. And who knows what other information we
will eventually put into that file. So I am switching to encrypting
this file as well.
>
> I'm not sure this level of paranoia is warranted, but typical
> encrypting
> filesystems also encrypt the filenames. It probably suffices to just
> warn the user that the filenames of org files will still be exposed in
> the DAV area.
I have just put this information into the manual.
Thanks
- Carsten
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 0:23 org-mobile-use-encryption Greg Troxel
2010-10-13 8:59 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-13 12:48 ` org-mobile-use-encryption Greg Troxel
2010-10-14 6:31 ` org-mobile-use-encryption Carsten Dominik
2010-10-15 0:07 ` org-mobile-use-encryption Greg Troxel
2010-10-13 14:02 ` org-mobile-use-encryption Andreas Röhler
2010-10-14 6:40 ` org-mobile-use-encryption Carsten Dominik
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