Re: Tramp and crypted files

[Richard Stallman]

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  > - Encryption of files and file names shall be separated from vanilla
  >   Tramp. It is optional, and a user must enable it explicitly for a
  >   given remote directory. This is because of performance, and because of
  >   implementation simplicity. As a result, there shall be almost no
  >   change of existing Tramp; all encrytion functionality will be
  >   cumulated in a new tramp-crypt.el file.

This seems like a good architecture for the design.

I suggest having a feature where the user can specify to always
use encryption for certain host names.  So if you specify a host
name which is on that list (of names, or perhaps regexps?), tramp
would modify the request so as to do the encryption.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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