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List:       tails-dev
Subject:    [Tails-dev] Remove cryptkeeper?
From:       ague () mailoo ! org (Ague Mill)
Date:       2012-04-28 20:03:15
Message-ID: 20120428200315.GA5093 () localhost
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 05:23:51PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> a few good reasons to remove cryptkeeper (and encfs) have been posted
> on https://tails.boum.org/todo/remove_cryptkeeper/
> 
> The only Tails usecase where I know cryptkeeper has been useful, and
> which is not covered by LUKS, and the only reason I know of to ship
> cryptkeeper at all, is that it makes it possible (not really easy, but
> still) to send an encrypted folder over the Internet, in the form of
> an archive of the EncFS encrypted folder.
> 
> Given we can't know for sure how Tails users use cryptkeeper, let's
> say we would like to deprecate it in Tails, how do we do? I guess we
> have to ship a wrapper around cryptkeeper in two major releases, that
> announce cryptkeeper will disappear soon, and ask users to either
> migrate their data, or convince us it's really strongly needed.
> Looks like we should do this for the encfs command-line
> application too.

Is Cryptkeeper installation much more difficult than a simple calling "apt-get
install" or using the Synaptic Package Manager?

If it's not, I think it would be fine to simply remove the package from
a next release, and let users who need to use Cryptkeeper install the
package by themselves.

-- 
Ague
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