You should use the new context-dependent permissions system. Look at  
the authz-policy sample plugin. If you want end-to-end security,  
don't use HTML.

--Noah

On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Vincent wrote:

>
> 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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> >
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