Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto sigs and _Encryption_ for arch

[Paul Hedderly]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:44:37PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> `get' doesn't check signatures in this proposal.  My reasoning is that
> while the archive host is going to have public keys (somewhere outside
> of where arch itself can touch them) clients running `get' generally
> won't.
> 
> Verifying the integrity of a signed archive is orthogonal to running
> `get' on it.

Oh dear - That got me thinking.

I would _love_ to be able to use arch to securely store documents. So it
would fab if I could set an archive or just files into encrypt mode...
in which case the gpg stuff is not orthogonal anymore.

But this is turning the crypto project into a beast :O)

--
Paul