#18 Better encryption support

[Ari]

For version 0.5 it would be nice to see:

- prompt for password when drag & dropping from xarchiver to nautilus an encrypted file, instead of failing with error message (current situation for 7z at least)

- support for header (filename) encryption in the formats that support that (rar & 7zip)

xarchiver is already cool, but with this it will go far beyond file-roller.

[Giuseppe Torelli]

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Unfortunately there is no easy way to determine if a 7z file is encrypted unless digging in the 7z code. I tried to ask for help to the author as you can see here but without luck:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1378003&forum_id=383044

For rar archive I tried to support what you asked but the code is rather complicated. If your programming skills allow you to do that I will be more than welcome to apply your patches.

BTW: Does drag and drop from Xarchiver to Nautilus window works?

[Ari]

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wow, I'm impressed, you guys looked into this two years ago now.

Thanks for following up though. It's a pitty the 7z guy is not cool.

xarchiver D&D seems to be working fine with nautilus. ubuntu 7.10 here. I understand now that filename encryption will not happen... :( but drag & drop of encrypted files perhaps? maybe parsing the error message of rar/7z?

For full encryption / splitting support (which is in the end what I've been looking for, for backup purposes, i don't really care if it is 7z or rar or whatever), would it be possible to use something more open like bz2 and "piped" gpg (and previous tar, also piped) instead?

From what I know, there is currently no real solution in linux for this simple use case:
- backup your home folder! (encrypted, compressed, and split for burning)

Just a rant :), thanks for listening.
cheers

[Ettore Atalan]

Is anything going on with this feature?

Igar seems to be not a big help.