https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159040
Bug ID: 159040
Summary: provide easy UI to automatically apply digital
signature when storing documents
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: framework
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
currently to apply a digital signature to an ODF/OOXML document, the user has
to use the File->Digital Signatures->Digital Signatures... dialog.
this requires that the file is saved first, and after it is signed, the user
gets prompted to remember the certificate, and if it is saved again, it will be
signed with the same certificate.
but if the user closes the document, the next time it's opened and edited, the
user has to go to the same menu item to sign it again.
there are also settings in Tools->Options->User Data to set a default OpenPGP
signing key and encryption key, but this only causes this singing key to be
pre-selected in the Select Certificate dialog.
it should be possible to make this more user-friendly, to sign with a
certificate automatically in some situations.
there is also a privacy aspect to be taken into consideration though: of course
the certificate usually contains the user's name and perhaps other personal
data, organizational affiliation etc., so probably it's not a good idea to sign
*every* document that the user stores.
in general LO supports 2 different kinds of certificate, so an obvious
improvement is to add an option for a default X509 certificate in
Tools->Options, or extend the current setting to allow selecting X509 in
addition to OpenPGP.
then perhaps a checkbox could be added to the file chooser dialog; when storing
a file, it already has "Encrypt with GPG key" so it could have a "Sign with
default certificate" checkbox too (note this needs adding to ~6 file chooser
services).
other ideas would be to automatically sign a document if it's stored encrypted
with a password or with a GPG key - perhaps with a Tools->Options checkbox.
(but not sure if this is desirable, and it sort of contradicts the previous
idea - if there is a checkbox in the file chooser and in Tools->Options how
should it work...)
we might have time to implement something here but i'd first like to know how
it should work :)
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