Hi Tankred,

> I'm working on an open source alternative to dropbox in which documents are 
> encrypted client-side (http://www.pgpbox.org/). The openpgpg.js project seems 
> very promising and I am trying to integrate the library into the application.

sounds interesting and might be a very good use case for our library.

> Is it somehow possible to encrypt larger files... or am I just missing 
> something?

Could you host an example so we can have a closer look at it?

Best regards, Alex

On 31.01.2012, at 19:39, Tankred Hase wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm working on an open source alternative to dropbox in which documents are 
> encrypted client-side (http://www.pgpbox.org/). The openpgpg.js project seems 
> very promising and I am trying to integrate the library into the application.
> 
> I am using the HTML5 FileReader api in order to get to the data of a file 
> before encrypting it. This works fine for small files with a couple of KB, 
> but my Chrome tab just crashes when trying to encrypt larger files (e.g. 732 
> KB). One solution for this problem could be to slice the file into multiple 
> peaces using file.webkitSlice and then encrypt each slice sperately. But this 
> would mean that I would have to store multiple encrypted document slices. I 
> would rather have one PGP message per file.
> 
> Is it somehow possible to encrypt larger files... or am I just missing 
> something? Thanks in advance for your answer!
> 
> Kind regard,
> Tankred
> _______________________________________________
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