Fw: GNUMed utilities: wxRiper

[Ben Laurie]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> 
> I'd be grateful for your views on this since I can't evaluate it
> myself.
> The link to UK Crypto law is that this sort of thing might be used to
> make medical records attributable/non-repudiatable/demonstrably
> unchanged since made in court cases.

Umm. Anything that runs locally is unlikely to be able to provide such
facilities.

> >Essentially, wxRiper is a graphical user interface integrating tools
> such as
> >tar, bzip2, and gnupg. It allows you to select files by
> point-and-click /
> >file selector boxes (works), drag-and-drop (not yet), or command
> line/piping
> >(not yet). It watermarks files with the RIPEMD-160 algorithm (works
> >already), archives them in a tar file (works), compresses it using
> the bzip2
> >algorithm (works).
> >It creates a "rmd" file for each file backed up. This rmd file
> contains a
> >history of all  digital watermarks (works). All files can be
> digitally
> >signed and encrypted (not yet).

Watermarks? Does this mean checksums? Signed checksums? Or what? Coz it
surely can't watermark an arbitrary file!

Cheers,

Ben.

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