Re: [Tails-dev] Porting Confidant Mail to tails

Mike Ingle:
> I have a program that is perfect for the Tails user base. It's a secure
> email system based on GPG, Tor, and I2P. The program uses
> wxPython-3.0.2.0 and also needs up to date python-cryptography and
> pyopenssl, as it uses TLS v1.2 with ephemeral keys.
>
> It can be run from python, or built to a binary with cx_freeze. I
> already have it working on Tails 1.2.3 as a tarball. You can download
> from http://www.confidantmail.org (click on Download and get the
> Wheezy/Tails tarball) and just untar it and run "./confidantmail &" and
> it works fine.
>
> Tails has secure chat and browsing. Is there any interest in including
> this secure email? If so, what is the right way to package it? Using the
> cx_freeze binaries, or providing all the proper Python libs to run it
> from python interpreter?

Hi,

Thanks for your proposal. To start with, please have a look at our FAQ
about including new software:

https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/#new_software

One of the condition is to be packaged and available in Debian first. Is
that the case already?