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What’s the point of decrypting a binary (non-text) file and not putting it on disk? What if I have to open it with photoshop?



The functionality should either be built into the OS, or into Photoshop. Photoshop should support decryption of the file on the fly. It should best be paired with a "private" mode where it stores nothing about your activities (most programs store some artifacts of your behaviour e.g. vlc stores last opened files or kate stores which line you last edited or something like that).


> be built into the OS, or into Photoshop

You're already setting yourself up for failure here, there's no way every single tool you're using will integrate encryption in them.

I agree that the OS should do better, but unfortunately that is not the world we live in at the moment so user tools are what is needed.


You can put the decrypted file on a RAM file system, if the size constraints are satisfied.




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