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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. |