[tomboy-list] Encrypted WebDav Synchronization Plugin

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Paul Klingelhuber
<privatenoteshgb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently developing a plugin for Tomboy, which allows you to
> synchronize your notes to a webdav server (webdav support built-in, no need
> for webdav-filesystem drivers etc).

Cool beans.  I understand this is a school project so you probably
have specific deadlines and requirements, but just so you know I am
already working on adding encrypted note support to Tomboy, with
strong integration in Snowy (the server that runs Tomboy Online).

Details of my plans are available here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417316#c16

If you'd like to work together on that, it would probably lead to a
better and more widely-used solution, compared to each of us working
on separate approaches.

> Additionally the notes get encrypted before they are sent to the server. It
> is not an OpenPGP encryption, but it uses the AES standard.
>
> More information can be found at
> http://privatenotes.dyndns-server.com/ (there will be more soon, such as
> details about the encryption that it uses).
>
> I basically wanted to know if you are interested in my work, the code and
> compiled version will all be released in the next weeks, I am planning to
> put the code under GPL.

I'd recommend using LGPL to match Tomboy's license, if there is any
chance that you want your code to end up upstream.

> As you can see on the site, there is also some development going on on
> Android and iPhone (however this is not maintained by me, but by some
> colleagues).

I would strongly recommend that you work with the Tomdroid team
instead of starting a new Tomboy-on-Android project.

As for iOS, there is currently no native client that I'm aware of, but
Snowy has (still in its early stages) an HTML5 offline-capable mobile
app using jquery-mobile that is meant to fill that niche.  If this is
interesting to your team, I'd be happy to work together on finishing
it up.

Good luck on your project,
Sandy