Bug#673071: ITP: vodstok -- Voluntary Distributed Storage Kit

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Hi,

Pierre Jaury <pierre@jaury.eu> writes:
> This software is still an early research project: as far as I know, only
> basic formal security analysis has been performed.

Ok, just make sure that the users know about this.

> Yet, for your specific concern about usual AES vulnerability when using
> independently encrypted blocks, the project aims at providing temporary
> private storage but does not pretend to provide secure operations.

Ok, next question is then: how does vodstok detects tampering done by
hostile peers?

> By the way, I am quite new at Debian packaging and still asking plenty
> of (dumb) questions. Should I package client-only as vodstok (which is
> in fact mostly written in Python) and PHP repository separately as
> vodstok-server or anything?

Two separate binary packages might make sense in that case yes but
they'll of course be part of the same source package I assume?

-Timo