Zim-desktop-wiki: Standard File Plugin

[neokeld]

Dear Jaap and others,

I would like to suggest a new plugin for Zim : a Standard File Plugin.
Standard File is a protocol - defined on the website https://standardfile.org/ - that can store encrypted notes on a backend. Encrypting is on the client side. It is used by the notes app Standard Notes.

I would like to implement it to synchronize my notes on my desktop on Zim with my mobile on the Standard Note app - which is implemented with React-native (and possibly, in a second step, fork the Standard Note to do a Zim-mobile).

What do you think of it ?

PS: The Standard File Client Development Guide is here : https://github.com/standardnotes/doc/blob/master/Client%20Development%20Guide.md

Best,
Arnaud

[Osndok]

Just linking #291 ...

[neokeld]

Indeed that would answer to #291 @Osndok @glappen @synchr @angerangel
Should this plugin be a Version Control Plugin @raincomplex @jaap-karssenberg ?
Linking issue #136 @maxmv (to remember to document this plugin)

[genodeftest]

Isn't encryption something that should happen on file system level? There is so much metadata and side channels on an unencrypted system that there is barely any use to this.

[neokeld]

The proposed use case here is to send notes on a backend and to encrypt the data on the client side before sending.
I don't think encrypting on file system level solve the problem. Even if your disk is encrypted, at the time of sending you have to encrypt the data.

[jaap-karssenberg]

To me this does not sound as something that belongs in zim. You can easily write a tool that monitors the disk and mirrors it to an (encrypted) server. Similar to how a notebook can live in a folder with cloud backup.

[neokeld]

You're right, "Doing one thing, well", maybe this is the job of an external tool.