[dev] Horde application for secure filesharing

duck duck at obala.net
Tue Apr 28 16:53:56 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 28 April 2009 18:13:43 Andre Pawlowski wrote:
> Michael Rubinsky wrote:
> > Quoting Andre Pawlowski <sqall at h4des.org>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've written a Horde application for secure file sharing and want to
> >> ask, if the Horde team is interested in this application.
> >
> > This looks interesting, but is there a reason that this couldn't be
> > done using the existing Gollem application, with, perhaps a new VFS
> > backend to handle the file encryption/decryption if needed?
>
> Mhh, a real reason doesn't exist. I tested Gollem and it was a real
> huge application with a lot of options. In this time I wrote a small
> application for only download files of a datastore on the server. And
> then the idea with the secure file sharing was born and I start to
> extend my small application. At the moment I'm writing a book with a
> friend and we exchange our data with my secure file sharing
> application and it's really nice to work with it.

I am really interested. I agree that Gollem is not a good start. Some time ago 
I started my own project (http://wiki.horde.org/Project/Doch) but I have no 
time to continue an active development. I am favor to drop my module in favor 
of a good collaboration.  

Duck



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