Re: Privacy

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:28:19AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:49:51PM +0000, Charles Goodwin was heard to remark:
> > Does libgsf offer encryption transparently to applications?
> > 

It doesn't at thistime, but it's certainly not impossible or even
terribly hard to envision supporting it.
 
> Yes, this was discussed to death on the gnucash mailing lists. 
> -- encryption is not enough if your kid can still delete your data files.
>    The point is really access control, not encryption per se.

Yes and no.  There are valid use cases for both sorts of issues.
Encryption and authentication play a role when transfer documents
over untrusted links.  Secure storage mediums are orthoganal to
this.

> -- one should stick to OS-provided security mechanisms for many good reasons

Agreed.

> -- yes, one could run multiple x servers on different desktops using
>    ctrl-alt-PFn to toggle between them and use xlock on these,
>    but this is wasteful of RAM, and is not a pretty solution for other 
>    reasons.

Huh?  What does that have to do with the price of yakk droppings ?
We're clearly missing part of this conversation.  Can you point us
back to the start of the thread get a feel for what you are trying
to do ?