Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 02:11:13 Tim Newsom wrote: After reading about truecrypt on slashdot I think that could pose as a suitable start to the encryption solution... At least as a starting place to build a framework on and test out some ideas. I don't really see why one would want to use

Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: I don't really see why one would want to use Truecrypt when there's been LUKS in the Linux kernel for years now... Right. And with FreeOTFE you can even access your encrypted LUKS partitions on a Windows-PC or on a Windows-Mobile PDA. Ext2IFS for windows

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tobias Gruetzmacher
Hi, Am Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:31:56 +0100 schrieb Sven Neuhaus: Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote: Partitions are a major usability nightmare IMHO. That is the reason my proposal focused on encfs/ecryptfs, which both are layered encryption file systems. This removes the requirement to set a fixed size

Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 1:33, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: I don't really see why one would want to use Truecrypt when there's been LUKS in the Linux kernel for years now... Well, for one I had never heard of LUKS till earlier yesterday. Now I will have to go check it out. (Grin) --Tim

Proposal format...

2007-03-21 Thread Anil Franklin
Could somebody please help me,in writing a proposal to SoC.. Is there a particular format for a proposal to SoC.. (I heard about time schedule and all) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Location Instant Messaging

2007-03-21 Thread martin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:10:45PM +0100, Alexander E Genaud wrote: I could imagine a buddy list (just like or integrated with) an instant messaging program with whom one shares his location at all times. Oh, Alice and Bob are at the pub next door! Maybe I should invite them over. Eve seems

Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 21/03/2007 12:11 PM, Tim Newsom wrote: After reading about truecrypt on slashdot I think that could pose as a suitable start to the encryption solution... At least as a starting place to build a framework on and test out some ideas. I suggest you learn about LUKS which is the standard

Re: Reminder: Google SoC application deadline in 5 days

2007-03-21 Thread Koen Kooi
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Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tobias Gruetzmacher writes: It doesn't have to be complicated, check out this screencast http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/crypto/ showing LUKS integration into Gnome. I know of this integration. I have setup many devices with LUKS encryption. But I really don't want to ask the user How

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 9:34, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Tobias Gruetzmacher writes: Right -- these look like good approaches, but to a different problem. /please excuse my direct manner.. Its just how I write (smile) What do you mean by different problem? Maybe I don't fully understand. The way I

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tim Newsom writes: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 9:34, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Tobias Gruetzmacher writes: Right -- these look like good approaches, but to a different problem. /please excuse my direct manner.. Its just how I write (smile) Likewise -- it's hard to see somebody smile by email, and I never

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-21 Thread Ole Tange
On 3/19/07, Frank de Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you want Flash use Gnash. At FOSDEM I had a chat with Rob Savoye. He is one of the lead Gnash developers. He was very interested in porting Gnash to the Neo1973. If you want to help him join the Gnash project. /Ole

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:03, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Hope my notes above are helpful... Hehe that's great. At least I am certain that you and I are on the same page now. I thought from my very quick glance at truecrypt that it could encrypt individual files also but I have not had a hard look

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Mikko Rauhala [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070321 01:40]: 'lo Didn't appear in the wiki, so I figured I'd throw it out there first: compressed SMS for when a persistent TLS-encrypted and -compressed Jabber connection just isn't there (eg. if it would be too expensive in a particular locale), but

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tim Newsom writes: I know there are many many solutions to encryption and it would be nice to have a mechanism to install and use whatever the user wanted to setup and configure. That would be ideal! Right now I'm thinking about how to get it to match what *I* want to do. Other users can

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Andreas Kostyrka writes: At the moment, I'm wandering around the source code for __libc_read() and __libc_write() to see if there's a good way to hijack a program's read() and write() calls, so if they are to a file that's marked as encrypted the data can go through encrypt() on the way

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Andreas Kostyrka wrote: ...plus probably a system that would automatically upload/download moko-ness information. snip This way all mokos could keep in touch, and people that switch phones more often would be able to tune it. First, I'm not a SMS user (I use email.), so you can take this

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-21 Thread Brad Pitcher
Or swfdec would be nice. The latest version supports YouTube videos. :) Regardless which free flash player is used, it will need to be made to work with minimo. Minimo still doesn't have an interface for installing extensions as of now, but it seems that extensions can be made for minimo and

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 21:58:27 Jonathon Suggs wrote: My challenge is just to think bigger. Think how this could be incorporated to work with *any* phone. Then you can have a much larger group of people to brainstorm, test, and bugfix. We have enough protocols and standards to support.

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:35, Jonathon Suggs wrote: My challenge is just to think bigger. Think how this could be incorporated to work with *any* phone. Then you can have a much larger group of people to brainstorm, test, and bugfix. We have enough protocols and standards to support.

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:35, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: But it has the encryption jail drawback. So maybe one way to deal with these issues is to build out the framework by constructing a new api for reading and writing data based on this provider concept.. Including the authentication. Then deal

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Hadn't seen unionfs -- that really warrants a further look. Thanks. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:59, Henryk Plötz wrote: Moin, Plus: If you really want per-file encryption that would only need some minimal modifications to the existing solutions. Or use unionfs. That's very interesting and opens up lots of potential. Your right, key management along with many