Re: [Gramps-users] Encrypting .gramps backup files?

[Craig T. <ctr...@co...>]

At 4:59 PM -0500 5/15/14, Ron Johnson wrote:
>On 05/15/2014 04:44 PM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
>>  On 5/15/14 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>  How difficult would it be to integrate encryption into the backup process?
>>  I would be inclined to suggest developing a workflow using a TrueCrypt
>>  (http://www.truecrypt.org/) volume as the target for the backups. It
>>  seems to be smoother for most people's systems and until a more
>>  consistant process can be integrated into the application this would
>>  give people a secured target for their backups.
>
>What do you mean by "more consistent process"?
>
>AKAICT, TrueCrypt does not have *any* API, much less a Python modules,
>whereas with the Python crypto module and API, the gzip "packets" are fed
>directly into the encryption functions right there in the Gramps python code.

I trust that this encryption would be an _optional_ feature.  I, for 
one, like the idea that my backups are easily readable.  The former 
software package I used for genealogy stopped working after a system 
upgrade and the fact that the backup was human-readable was my 
ace-in-the-hole.

Craig