[ale] encryption question

[drifter]

Understand all of that.  But, as I said, I just (stupidly) assumed
that any distro that offered to encrypt /home would also include
Kgpg or the equivalent from the get go so I could further
encrypt personal files.  My bad.

Sean



On Wednesday 07 July 2010 18:19:24 James Sumners wrote:
> The difference is that the file system is managed by the kernel, and
> lower level user programs, while individual files, and KDE, are
> managed by higher level utilities. In other words, there is some
> background program that is independent of KDE which encrypts your file
> system. The individual file you wanted to decrypt had been encrypted
> with something else at a higher abstraction level (e.g. Kgpg).
> 
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:32 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> > Hanging on the wall of my high school chemistry lab (50 years ago)
> > was this sign.  "Assume will make an ass of you and me."
> >
> > I blithely assumed that a program like Kgpg would come with an
> > install of Kbuntu that had the option of encrypting the home
> > directory automatically -- auto decrypts on valid password at boot.
> >
> > Obviously it did not, so having the data (keyrings, etc.) was
> > insufficient.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.  Did an apt-get install and now decryption works
> > as it should.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 16:12:14 James Sumners wrote:
> >> http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg/ looks promising. Found via
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=kde+gnupg . It's also listed on
> >> http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/frontends.html .
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> 
wrote:
> >> > Still trying to get this netbook up and running at it should.
> >> >
> >> > Kbuntu 10.04 -- fresh install; reloaded files from saved /home.
> >> >
> >> > .gnupg copied back into /home
> >> >
> >> > try to decrypt file and KDE wants to know what application
> >> > do I want to use to open the file.  What should happen is a
> >> > dialog box should pop up asking for the passphrase.
> >> >
> >> > Obviously I am missing something.
> >> > But I don't know what.
> >> > Clues would be appreciated as I really needto be able to decrypt
> >> > that file.
> >> >
> >> > Sean
> >
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