[Popcon-developers] Bug#480860: Bug#480860: popularity-contest should encrypt contents
- Subject: [Popcon-developers] Bug#480860: Bug#480860: popularity-contest should encrypt contents
- From: Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:31:49 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20090219183149.GT25499@yellowpig>
- In-reply-to: <20080512123107.8168.64771.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
- References: <20080512123107.8168.64771.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Sadly, due to concerns about traffic eavesdropping I've decided to
> remove popularity-contest from the machines that I administrate as
> personally I feel it leaks too much information about the make-up of a
> system (just my personal, paranoid viewpoint!)
>
> If however in the future versions of popcon the contents could be
> encrypted prior sending (which will also compress everything) then I'll
> be happy to re-install this package in the first instance.
Hello Sheridan,
Your issue is mentionned in the popcon FAQ
<http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ>.
We could provide a popcon public key and encrypt the report with it,
decrypting submission on the server. We would have to put the private
key on the server.
At this stage I am afraid that decrypting all the submissions would
but too high a load on the server.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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