[Thunar-dev] gpg

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Jul 21 17:23:15 CEST 2006


Xavier Dectot wrote:
>>just to talk about something, would it be doable to do a gpg plugin,
>>which can encrypt and decrypt files and so on? Something like
>>Nautilus+Seahorse. I don't know if anyone would benefit from it or if
>>it's even doable, it is more about discussing the topic for now.
> 
> Wouldn't these scripts do it ?
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> #gpgencrypt
> 
> gpg -r $USER --output ${1}.gpg --encrypt ${1}
> 
> and
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> #gpgdecrypt
> 
> gpg -r $USER --output ${1%.*} --decrypt $1
> 
> do what you want (using them as custom actions ?)

Jap, that's the quick and dirty one. You could however write a plugin
with graphical feedback, similar to the archive plugin.

Benedikt



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