Thanks everyone for your useful advice. In the end, I opted for EncFS. Being on Ubuntu+Gnome-Shell this was fairly straightforward to setup.
Source : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FolderEncryption After installing EncFS, I also downloaded gnome-encfs which allowed me to store the passphrase in the Gnome keyring and auto-mount the encrypted directory on login. Using Gnome-Shell, Cryptkeeper did not seem to work (the tray icon did not appear anywhere), so I found and installed another Nautilus extension: http://blog.sambull.org/easily-encrypt-folders-2 The extension is a short Python script for creating new encrypted folders and works in tandem with gnome-encfs Once setup, there's really no maintenance (and no need to enter a passphrase once logged in). It wasn't quite what I had in mind, but at least it is convenient. My greatest paranoia is having my laptop stolen and sensitive data extracted that way. Unfortunately, gnome-encfs is not in the Ubuntu 'trusted' repositories... The Python script, however, is short and seems harmless enough. - Per >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Per <pmknut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Is there a Zim plugin for encrypting a wiki and unlocking with a >> > passphrase? >> >> There is not. Current recommendation is to use an encrypted file >> system. E.g. on Ubuntu Linux there is a standard option to encrypt >> your home folder. On other systems you can install products that will >> encrypt a specific folder. >> >> Put the zim notebook in such a folder and all is save. Jsut unlock the >> folder before opening zim (or use the automount plugin.) >> >> > If not, then is this something which in principle could be >> > accomplished with a plugin? >> >> In principle yes, but will require some hacking in other parts of zim >> as well. Would need to add a step in the file system code such that >> the plugin can decrypt a file before it is read by the notebook. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jaap >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
