Re: Editing and storing encrypted files
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:17:40PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:22:44PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some files that I would like to store encrypted. Of course I can
> > just type them in, encrypt them using gpg and delete the original, but
> > that seems to be a bit of a kludge. It would mean the file is at some
> > time readable unencrypted (after saving in the editor), and forgetting
> > to turn off the backup file option in the editor when changing the file.
>
> I solved this problem with a little script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> gpg .dev.gpg > /dev/null
> emacs .dev
> rm .dev.gpg
> gpg -r "Philipp Schulte" -e .dev
> rm .dev
> rm .dev~
>
a nicer way of doing this would be to write a defun in emacs
my-load-file
so - it loads a file into a buffer - if the file has certain
traits that encrypted files do (ie: GPG headers) pipe it
through gpg file (mailcrypt does this nicely).
and also write
my-save-file
which does the opposite - and maybe we keep track of what files have to be
encrypted.
C-x C-f calls my-load-file
C-x C-s calls my-save-file
of course emacs needs to be patches to only put its temp files in
an encrypted loopback and we index them so we know where they
are related.
peter 'darkewolf' crystal
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