Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread John
> ... Which goes to imply, as far as I'm concerned, that people are > getting a bit _too_ paranoid. At my day job, we're doing our first Internet credit-card based service. Our motto is "Extreme Paranoia". This was adopted before Visa published thier 11 Commandments... > If there were tools bu

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:49:12 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 7 Sep 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Of course, I hope that anyone who encrypts their gnucash data > > > remembers to also encrypt

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread John
On 7 Sep 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Of course, I hope that anyone who encrypts their gnucash data > > remembers to also encrypt their swap file . . . > > Well, if you have enough RAM this isn't an issue... ;) I've got 256Mb and I _stil

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That all sounds quite solid reasoning to me. I've taken a security > class, which didn't teach us all that much about how to design > secure systems, but was quite good at showing just how easy it was > to make insecure ones. Yea.. I do comput

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > On 06 Sep 2000 11:59:50 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Why not just use a crypto filesystem? PGP (and gpg) are useful for > > encrypting files for transmission, but really should not be used for > > long-term

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Sep 2000 11:59:50 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why not just use a crypto filesystem? PGP (and gpg) are useful for > encrypting files for transmission, but really should not be used for > long-term data storage. You should be using data-st