iCal Link Sync

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Project management tool automatically generates iCal link and continuously exports/syncs events with due dates.

When I checked cryptpad, right now, it can only do one time import from iCal file, but not continuously importing/syncing events from iCal link, so please add this feature.

adigitoleo

Automatic calendar updates would be great to have: I'm looking to replace my use of google/outlook calendars but it will not be very convenient if I need to remember to manually upload a new iCal/ICS file. I guess this can be achieved with something like a timer/cron job on the server side, is it feasible?

Mathilde

Hello,

It's an interesting feature request indeed. Sadly, it completely break the privacy model of CryptPad, where everything is end-to-end encrypted.

As far as we know, neither the iCalendar, nor the CaldDav standards supports encryption. It would mean that your data is made readable by everyone who has access to the link and you'll loose complete control over who can access it.

We understand the need for people to connect CryptPad to other tools and are investigating API models that would allow integrations. However, I don't think it's something that will be doable in a short time-frame. We have yet no funding, nor time to work on this with our current roadmap.

Hope that helps clear some things up. Please don't hesitate to react and share ideas about the privacy side of the feature request!

dottrash

Mathilde

Hi,
While it is not possible to implement e2e encryption with iCal or CalDav, I think it might be possible to do a workaround with RSS. In the collective I am in, we have a shared cryptpad account with a calendar. We do not log into the cryptpad super regularly and often it is only one person accessing the documents for a meeting. Still it would be nice if for example meeting reminders of meetings that are scheduled in the calendar get to people without them having to open the drive.
One way I was thinking about is generating .atom items from the instead of .ics items. Individuals can then subscribe add the calendar items to their RSS feed or have them as emails in their inbox. Some quick googling yielded that secure syndication can be used to read encrypted RSS feeds in your browser, and I think something similar should work for email as well.
Do you think providing encrypted RSS is realistic in this situation?