How to encrypt the file names

Nils Andre nils at nilsand.re
Tue Mar 9 00:21:25 UTC 2021


Never used it, but I think what you need is pass-tomb[0].

[0]: https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:06:07PM +0100, Max Görner wrote:
> Dear password-store collaborators,
> 
> first I want to thank you for the great password manager. I use it
> extensively, even in Bash aliases and enjoy its great user interface.
> 
> However, one issue is nagging me since I noticed it. Its that the entire
> password structure is unencrypted. While the content of the files is
> encrypted, the file names itself are not. I strongly dislike this leakage of
> information. Now everyone who can access the repository can see which bank I
> use, which servers I maintain and some of the websites I surf.
> 
> Probably the least invasive option would be to encrypt the names of the files
> and the folders. Unfortunately, I could not find how to get a short one-line
> encryption using GPG.
> 
> Has someone considered this information leak and could point me to a
> discussion?
> Does someone know how to implement a one-line encryption? I would like to try
> out to implement that and maybe contribute the feature back to password-store.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Max Görner


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