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Originally Posted by zimon View Post
To be really secure, it should be based on TrueCrypt or similar.
Having every application installed in its own TrueCrypted virtual disk and (un)mounting them with passwords of group of passwords.

Edit:
"passwords of group of passwords."

What I mean by this, is every virtual disk (application) has its own automatically randomly generated strong password. There is a password manager, where one can make any number and combination of groups of passwords and then give some own password for every group.

Also there is one master root-password which would open all passwords in the manager and would give ability to create/modify/destroy groups.

When some group is "opened" with the group-password, then the password-manager will mount the corresponded TrueCrypted virtual disks. Would unmount them optionally with selected timeout or manually.

Actual application binaries and their private resource datafiles are in these crypted virtual disks. In /usr/bin/ there is a softlink to the real program inside the virtual disk:
ln -s /mnt/applock/someapp/usr/bin/someapp /usr/bin/someapp

To be really practical, a package manager should support this system.

Idea (c) GPLv3
Idea is great. but please note the usage scenario I mentioned, for such a case, encryption isnt really necessary.
Your idea may be useful, for example, when we give the devide to a service centre or someone who is an expert in the maemo commant line..
The usage scenario I mentioned are the "common" people who needs a "GUI" for everything.

By the way, why isnt there a truecrypt application for the N900 (apart from the command-line tool, something with a GUI) I've heard of the easycrypt frontend for maemo, but that I believe is for the N8x0 devices..