Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> * Package name : volume-key Version : 0.3.9 Upstream Author : Miloslav Trmač <mitr@redhat.com URL : https://releases.pagure.org/volume_key/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library/utility for manipulating storage encryption keys and passphrases This package provides libvolume_key, a library for manipulating storage volume encryption keys and storing them separately from volumes. The main goal of the software is to allow restoring access to an encrypted hard drive if the primary user forgets the passphrase. The encryption key back up can also be useful for extracting data after a hardware or software failure that corrupts the header of the encrypted volume, or to access the company data after an employee leaves abruptly. This is a build/binary dependency of the ITP'ed libblockdev [1] which in turn is a new dependency of upcoming udisks [2]. I know that the package names is less than ideal - one usually thinks about buttons to control the audio volume. If there's demand, I'm okay with changing the source package name to storage-volume-key, but the binary names need to (and should) match the upstream library/soname and thus can't be prefixed; so I don't think it's worth bothering. If anyone else is interested, co-maintenance is highly welcome and appreciated! Thanks, Martin [1] https://bugs.debian.org/862776 [2] https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/pull/260
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