Bug#948038: ITP: gfsecret -- Tools to make secret sharing easier.
Le 03/01/2020 à 18:18, Philipp Kern a écrit :
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> What's the advantage of this tool vs. the tools in libgfshare-bin and ssss?
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> Kind regards and thanks
> Philipp Kern
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>From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) the tools included in
libgfshare-bin are more a raw proof of concept of the underlying library
than a user friendly interface.
I wasn't aware of ssss but from what I tested, it seems you can only
share a secret passphrase.
Gfsecret allows you to split and combine files using what is called
share URIs defined in a configuration file at split time. You can then
use this configuration file to combine the minimum number of shares
detected by the software to rebuild the file.
My main use (and the main purpose of this software) is to split your
master GPG key. Since a few release versions, there is even a facilating
tool to do exactly that.
The share URIs can be put on different local or external volumes.
Gfsecret supports local filesystem, external volumes identified by
uuid/label/mtp.
More information is available on Gfsecret website:
https://incenp.org/dvlpt/gfsecret.html
My opinion is that Gfsecret can be a good addition to Debian. Do you
think I should keep on packaging it or is it too redundant with other
tools already available?
Best,
Thomas
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