[nzlug] encrypted IMAP storage?

[Steve Holdoway]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:03:03 +1300
"Guy K. Kloss" <G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:09:11 pm Mark Foster wrote:
> > Maybe i'm asking the obvious - but surely the storage medium would need to
> > support the encryption mode?
> >
> > Eg, if Gmail don't support encryption, how do you expect to influence the
> > manner in which they store your messages?
> 
> Well, in a way you're right. But my question's origin was to store my stuff 
> using the public IMAP server as a container. Content could be e. g. dumped 
> all into a MIME attachment. It's the free parsing of content that I would 
> like to inhibit by the provider. I have vague memories of one that google offered...
ISFR an user-space mounter for gmail, built on top of fuse??? Yup, google suggests that gmailfs is available... http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem-installing.html may help. Follow that up with a quick dose of http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_GmailFS to encrypt on the fly and you should be good.

Obviously, you'll lose some the the IMAP portability doing this, but it *should* work. 
> 
> My own server of course could solve all kinds of problems, but it would also 
> be more costly and less reliable (has anybody ever seen world wide a more 
> reliable infrastructure than the one offered by Google? It's seldom and 
> hard ...).
gmail isn't perfect by any means. Just at the end of last week there were plenty of users unable to log on, and with it being so big, it's a tempting target for the future too.

Personally, I'd place an amount of trust in direct relation to the amount you pay for it.

> 
> Guy

Steve.
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