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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: While we're on the topice of kconfig...
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-09-23 1:28:12
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:09:36AM -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> 
> If changes are going to be made, can we implement a method for proper config
> file encryption?  Certainly many apps want to store secure information in
> config files.   Furthermore, some users may just want to have all of their
> configuration encrypted for some reason or another.  It's a bad idea to have
> the app developers trying to do this themself.  Now OpenSSL can actually do
> some of this, but as was mentioned before, it causes bloat and it would be
> bad to link to such a critical area.  The only good way would be to load it
> dynamically.  Perhaps there are some other libraries out there that would be
> more suited to this anyways.  In any case I think it would be a good idea to
> put this in asap.

Now... what about deriving a QIODevice or whatever that would give you the
obvious operators, and it would merely encrypt the stream on the fly... if
used by the KConfig files..... hmmmmm... yummy... reuseable code.. scooby
snacks.. mm mmm good :)

- alex

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