Re: Tramp and crypted files (was: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > As I said the other thread, we could create a new connection method
  > "nextcloud-crypt" which does the job. A user could decide whether she
  > uses "nextcloud" or "nextcloud-crypt" when accessing a given file. This
  > could happen even in parallel for different files on the same server.

That could work -- but it is limited to nextcloud only.  I am
thinking of this as an option to offer for any and all kinds of remote
machines.

  >  I believe we shall find a way to encrypt/decrypt
  > the file name with the same passphrase as the contents of the file(s);
  > by this we wouldn't need to keep a local mapping file. The encrypted
  > file name could be adapted by base64 then, in order to make it fit to
  > the file system's naming conventions.

I didn't think of that one, but it sounds good.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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