Looking for developer on new MacGPG project

[Stéphane Corthésy-3]

Hi,

A long time ago I wrote a prototype for an idea I had about PGP use.  
Prototype was working well, but needs refinments to become a real app.  
I no longer have time to work on this, as you all know. I've seen a  
lot of people interested in working on GPGMail Snow Leopard port, or  
simply PGP apps. I'd like to benefit from this momentum ;-)

The idea is the following (I keep the copyright on it ;-)

User has some PGP-encrypted files that he'd like to decrypt, but not  
permanently, and without writing a decrypted copy on the disk. We  
could provide a way for him to decrypt the file, in memory, but  
present the decrypted file in the file system/Finder, using MacFUSE.

In Finder, user right-clicks on a PGP encrypted file. He choose the  
new 'PGP decrypt' menu. MacFUSE creates a new virtual filesystem that  
contains only the decrypted file, as well as information about the  
decryption (signature info for example). This filesystem is purely  
virtual, nothing is written down to disk (except in the VM, but it's  
another story). Then user can open decrypted file by double-clicking  
it in Finder, and can eject the virtual filesystem when done.  
Nothing's left on disk :-)

Using a MacFUSE <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/> filesystem, I  
could do it rather easily. The only constraint is that user needs gpg-
agent to ask for the passphrase.
Project needs to be updated for Snow Leopard (addition of new menu  
item to Finder's contextual menu) and latest MacFUSE, and the  
signature info should be displayed more nicely. We could also try to  
virtually 'replace' the encrypted file by the decrypted one, but I  
havent tried.


So, who's volunteering to lead this new MacGPG project?


Stéphane

P.-S.
I have some more ideas and prototypes to share, later :-)

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[lukas | dressy vagabonds]

Hi Stèphane,

I really like the idea and I would invest as much time into it as is  
to my disposal.

Greets

Lukas

P.S.: I've finally cleaned up my codebase and will commit it to svn ;-)

Am 21.10.2009 um 12:50 schrieb Stéphane Corthésy:

> Hi,
>
> A long time ago I wrote a prototype for an idea I had about PGP use.  
> Prototype was working well, but needs refinments to become a real  
> app. I no longer have time to work on this, as you all know. I've  
> seen a lot of people interested in working on GPGMail Snow Leopard  
> port, or simply PGP apps. I'd like to benefit from this momentum ;-)
>
> The idea is the following (I keep the copyright on it ;-)
>
> User has some PGP-encrypted files that he'd like to decrypt, but not  
> permanently, and without writing a decrypted copy on the disk. We  
> could provide a way for him to decrypt the file, in memory, but  
> present the decrypted file in the file system/Finder, using MacFUSE.
>
> In Finder, user right-clicks on a PGP encrypted file. He choose the  
> new 'PGP decrypt' menu. MacFUSE creates a new virtual filesystem  
> that contains only the decrypted file, as well as information about  
> the decryption (signature info for example). This filesystem is  
> purely virtual, nothing is written down to disk (except in the VM,  
> but it's another story). Then user can open decrypted file by double-
> clicking it in Finder, and can eject the virtual filesystem when  
> done. Nothing's left on disk :-)
>
> Using a MacFUSE <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/> filesystem, I  
> could do it rather easily. The only constraint is that user needs  
> gpg-agent to ask for the passphrase.
> Project needs to be updated for Snow Leopard (addition of new menu  
> item to Finder's contextual menu) and latest MacFUSE, and the  
> signature info should be displayed more nicely. We could also try to  
> virtually 'replace' the encrypted file by the decrypted one, but I  
> havent tried.
>
>
> So, who's volunteering to lead this new MacGPG project?
>
>
> Stéphane
>
> P.-S.
> I have some more ideas and prototypes to share,  
> later
>  :-)------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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