Comment 14 for bug 257901

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 257901] Re: Suggestion: GUI frontend(s) for ecryptfs-utils

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Mark Crutch <email address hidden> wrote:
> Personally I still favour "decrypt" - not least because it's a real
> word, whereas "unencrypt" isn't (at least as far as dictionary.com and
> wiktionary.org is concerned).

I tend to agree... "decrypt" sounds better than "unencrypt".

From a technical standpoint, what you're doing is actually "Mounting
the Encrypted Directory", which makes it readable, and "Unmounting the
Encrypted Directory" makes it unreadable again.

Those terms would be more true to form, of what's actually being done.

But perhaps too technical for the target audience? Thoughts?

:-Dustin