From: Colin Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Chris Beggy writes:
>> From: Colin Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Chris Beggy writes:
>
>>>> Is anybody encrypting/decrypting fields in the database?
>
>>> You are probably better off having the entire file encrypted, and
>>> using crypt++ to do the encrypt/decrypt.
>
>> Thanks for the crypt++ suggestion. ssl-hacks.el is good for this too.
>> Why would I be better off encrypting/decrypting the whole file, when
>> I really just want to secure a few fields out of many?
>
>I guess it depends on your threat model. Personally, I assume that my
>XEmacs session is secure, so I decrypt on the way into XEmacs. If I
>encrypt the entire .bbdb, then I only need to give a key once.
>
>One the other hand, if you assume that your XEmacs session is
>insecure, then decrypting only when you display the data would be the
>way to go. It would be much more cumbersome though, especially if the
>field pops up automatically when you are reading mail.
>
Agreed. I'll play around with this. It's useful to me since I'm
interested in sharing a .bbdb among users with unknown or
different levels of trust.
Chris
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