As an addendum, the client who requested this feature found this link
to an equivalent feature written in Ruby.  Seems to me this could be
done client side (presuming there is some sort of cryptology library
available for javascript) but it could also be done as a python
process.  Will do more research and get back to the group.

Vincent

On Jul 31, 2:01 pm, cobwebsmasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is something I hadn't thought would be useful, as I think there are 
> plenty of workarounds to get a similar effect, but I wanted to know what the 
> group thought of this idea:
>
> Encryptable Wiki pages that can only be unlocked by either a specific 
> password and/or a specific username/password combination.
>
> Client wants a place to store usernames/passwords, but doesn't want to store 
> it on a wiki as you could work around the wiki to get the information.  I've 
> suggested just placing a zip file with a password as an attachment on the 
> wiki, but he really wants this notion of an encryptable wiki --- it's stored 
> in the database encrypted so that only users with a specific password can 
> read what it's saying.
>
> I guess you could rig up an AJAX DOM sweep that took a given document through 
> some form of reversible encryption, but I have no idea how secure one can 
> make any reversible encryption scheme if, at the end of the day, a password 
> is involved.
>
> Thoughts on the idea and possible implementation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
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