Re: [Tails-dev] Installing caff?

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Installing caff?
> it has been suggested by a user to install caff (from the
> signing-party package) to allow using Tails as a platform for offline
> key signing (e.g. if you keep your master key offline, on a Tails
> persistent volume, and use a Tails that is never exposed to the
> network).
>
> For this usecase, the "you can just install caff yourself" argument
> doesn't hold, even with the persistent additional software feature
> since it currently requires to be online from time to time to go
> on working.
>
> I'm all in favour of supporting the usecase in Tails by default.


I have no strong opinion on that. On the one hand it looks like a quite
marginal use case, but on the other hand, and as you said, the
additional software feature might not be enough to allow that use case.
That would be low priority, though.