Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Richard,

> Connecting to Nextcloud is useful, but if you want your data to be
> secure you shouldn't send it unencrypted to a company's server.
> Does Tramp have the ability to encrypt the data before sending it to 
> Nextcloud,
> and decrypt it after fetching it from Nextcloud?

Tramp uses GVFS (Gnome Virtual FileSystem) as implementation. Under the
hood, the nextcloud server is connected via davs, that is the dav
protocol, ssl encrypted. Well, these days it is rather tls.

So yes, data are encrypted when Tramp accesses a nextcloud server.

Best regards, Michael.