Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 22:57 +0100, Marcel de Jong wrote:
> >From a user's standpoint:
> I do not think I'd like to enter a passphrase or any
other measures
> just to open up my contacts list (which is after all a
piece of
> personal data). Also for opening my calendar and such
actions on the
> device, I'd prefer to have no passphrase.
<snip a de doo daa>

I think Marcel is probably stating what *most* people are
going to want
as well.  Having the ability to encrypt data is a priority,
but not
having to use it should be a higher priority.

One of the biggest mantra's I hear coming from the FOSS camp
is "choice"
and so keeping with the whole practice what you preach
ideal, I think
the level of encryption should be a user configurable
preference.


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Jonathon Suggs wrote:
> One of the biggest mantra's I hear coming from the FOSS
camp is "choice"
> and so keeping with the whole practice what you preach
ideal, I think
> the level of encryption should be a user configurable
preference.
>   
I'd caveat that with comment that one of the biggest
bugbears against 
the FOSS camp is "usability" so if this type of
thing is going to be 
implemented then it should be a single system-wide option
that gets 
handled away in the backend so that applications don't even
need to know 
about it and that users don't have to pick and choose (or
worse, select 
on a per-application basis) what data is encrypted.

Cheers,
Jim.


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