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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2016-09-27 20:21:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2016-09-27 20:21:06 -0700 |
| commit | c80fd4394e2ba4ab49ef9009e57d836f8fc7272c (patch) | |
| tree | 36371df3b50e1ab8a8bbf363fe0000b1c2846421 /debian/control | |
| parent | d6d6c2b21e4e0b629307796a30624987c8dfdacd (diff) | |
| download | keysafe-c80fd4394e2ba4ab49ef9009e57d836f8fc7272c.tar.gz | |
improve description
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index efa600d..d66826a 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Suggests: git-annex Description: securely back up secret keys to cloud servers - Keysafe backs up a secret key to several cloud servers, split up - so that no one server can access the whole secret by itself. + Keysafe is a program to back up your secret encryption keys, such as + OpenPGP/GPG private keys, to cloud servers. Keys are split up into + several shards, only one of which is sent to each cloud server. This + way, it is impossible for any one server to access the whole secret + key by itself. . - A password is used to encrypt the data, and it is made expensive - to decrypt, so password cracking is infeasibly expensive. + A password is used to encrypt the shards. Keysafe's design ensures + that it is infeasibly expensive to crack the password. |