On 02/28/2018 06:18 PM, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > Hi! > > Jacob Adams: > >> I am looking to create an application for the PGP Clean Room Live CD >> that walks a user through setting up a set of USB flash drives or sd >> cards as a raid disk, generating new GPG keys, storing them there, and >> then exporting subkeys either on a separate USB stick or a PGP smartcard >> like a Yubikey. I'd also like to add the ability to do things like >> revoke keys or extend expiration dates for them through the application. >> You can see more of the ideas behind the project here: >> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/CleanRoomForPGPKeyManagement > > Sounds cool. But why would this application run only on this particular > Live CD and not any Debian-based OS?
There's no reason why it couldn't run on any other Debian-based OS or Live CD. Much of the usefulness, however, does come from the live cd environment and the control that gives us over the end-users system. > You mentioned Tails as being too > heavy to implement this there and ask people to download and run Tails - > understood. However, if your application were available as a Debian > package, Tails / Debian_unlive / Ubuntu users could also benefit from > it. And people would not have to download an entire Live System but > could simply do that in Tails :) On TAILS this could be quite useful. I will look into packaging the program after GSoC if everything works out. Have to actually write it first of course :) > > Anyhow, this is a comment which does not help you search for a mentor, > sorry about that & good luck! > > Cheers, > Ulrike >
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