Re: Tramp and crypted files

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Richard,

>   > 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.

Agreed. Therefore I made the alternative proposal to add another file
name handler which is responsible for the en-/decryption part. Combined
with Tramp, it shall work for all remote connection types.

There is the proposal to use encfs for this purpose. I haven't played
with this yet, but it sounds interesting. Together with that guy, I will
try to do a proof-of-concept. Let's see where we end.

Best regards, Michael.