Bug#490240: ITP: onetime -- A command-line encryption program based on the "one-time pad" method.

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>

* Package name    : onetime
  Version         : 1.73
  Upstream Author : Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
* URL             : http://www.red-bean.com/onetime
* License         : Public Domain
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : A command-line encryption program based on the "one-time pad" method.

   Encoder/decoder for one-time pads.
   
   The usual public-key encryption programs, such as GPG, are probably
   secure for everyday purposes, but their implementations are too
   complex for all but the most knowledgeable programmers to vet, and
   anyway there are too many vulnerable steps in the supply chain between
   GPG's authors and the end user.
   
   Hence this script, OneTime, a simple encryption program that works with
   one-time pads.  If you don't know what one-time pads are, you probably
   wouldn't be able to use them securely, so this program is not for you.
   If you do know what they are and how to use them, OneTime will take care
   of some of the pad-management bureacracy for you.  It avoids re-using
   pad data (except when decrypting the same encrypted message twice, of
   course) by maintaining records of pad usage in ~/.onetime/pad-records.
   And if you keep your ~/.onetime configuration area under version control
   with Subversion or CVS, OneTime will automatically update it to get the
   latest pad usage records before using a pad, and will commit new
   records after using a pad.  Thus, by sharing a single configuration
   area via version control, you and your interlocutors can transparently
   avoid the sin of pad range reuse.
   
   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad for more information
   about one-time pads in general; run 'onetime --help' for a detailed
   usage message about OneTime itself.
   
   OneTime is in the public domain.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash