Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> * Package name : keysafe Version : 0.20160819 Upstream Author : Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> * URL : https://joeyh.name/code/keysafe/ * License : AGPL-3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : back up secret keys to cloud servers Upstream synopsis: > Keysafe backs up a secret key to several cloud servers, split up so > that no one server can access the whole secret by itself. > A password is used to encrypt the data, and it is made expensive to > decrypt, so password cracking is infeasibly expensive. LWN write-up: https://lwn.net/Articles/696765/ The intended audience of keysafe is those using secret keys to encrypt only their personal data, when storing it in the cloud. Such a user doesn't need to take the security precautions that a Debian Developer or Debian Maintainer must take to protect their secret key. However, they still don't want to lose it and thus invalidate their backups. Keybase is designed to make it easy to backup secret keys in the cloud for this kind of user. Although this software is experimental, it has the potential to enable a lot more Debian users to use public/private key cryptography to protect the data that they store in the cloud. I intend to package this and submit it for upload to experimental. I want to do this because I believe it will enable a lot more testing, and useful feedback submitted to Joey. In particular, it will enable feedback from those who know a lot about cryptography but not much about Haskell. Further, we will want it in unstable eventually, and getting the packaging in shape in advance makes that easy (Joey isn't the kind of upstream to abandon the software while it's still alpha). -- Sean Whitton
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