Le 03/01/2020 à 18:18, Philipp Kern a écrit : > > What's the advantage of this tool vs. the tools in libgfshare-bin and ssss? > > Kind regards and thanks > Philipp Kern >
>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
