On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 11:10:25AM -0800, Lindsay Lawrence wrote: > Question: Is it possible to encrypt picolisp dbs on the fly? For example, > to hook into the low level functions that do block reads and writes in > order to apply encryption?
Not so easily. If it were only for reading from such a DB, it would be possible via the '*Ext' mechanism. With that, almost anything can be read as a database (for example PilBox is doing that to access the Java Objects in the Android runtime). But for writing I see no easy way at the moment. > For example, it would be a useful option, when setting up a 'pool' to > specify a key that is used to decrypt/encrypt block reads/writes to the > underlying storage. Once set up, this action would be transparent to the > application. Also, I'm not sure if this is really useful, as it could always be locally intercepted. Needs more thinking ... ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
