Hi,
On 28/02/15 09:47, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alexander Mette wrote (27 Feb 2015 18:02:50 GMT) :
>> I propose two patches to provide additional OpenPGP off-line paper key
>> backup functionality that you can find attached to this e-mail.
>
> Yay, thanks a lot! \o/
>
>> First one adds the paperkey package as explained in
>
>> https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8957
>
>> to allow printing out secret keys in as short and easily retrievable
>> form as possible.
>
> I've flagged that one as Ready for QA, for the next major Tails
> release (1.4). You can do this yourself next time. The gory details
> are documented there:
>
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/merge_policy/#index2h1
ok, sounds good.
> Any taker for the review, or does this fall into the fallback case,
> that is on the release manager's plate?
>
> [Meta: since it's -- I believe, very sorry if I'm forgetting past
> contributions -- Alexander's first code contribution, I would find it
> very nice and welcoming if his patches were reviewed promptly.]
Many thanks for the warm welcome! And yes, it's my first contribution to
Tails. If my handle sounds familiar to you, it might be due to a patch I
submitted for backupninja some time ago.
>> The second patch adds support for more printers via the gutenprint
>> (formerly gimp-print) drivers. [...]
>
> Please file a dedicated ticket for that one.
Done:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8994
> Once my following question has been answered, you may directly flag
> that ticket for 1.4, as Ready for QA, and pointing back to this thread
> so that the reviewer can easily find your patch.
Will do.
>> It pulls in libgutenprint2 and overall costs about 8.2MB. I do think
>> it's worth it though to provide a properly air-gapped system for
>> secure generation and backup of PGP keys that never has to connect
>> to the internet.
>
> Is this number (8.2MB) the increase of the resulting ISO size, when
> compressed with the default (slooooow but very efficient) settings,
> or anything else?
Oooh, right, sorry for the confusion. This number is the sum of the
sizes of the packages (printer-driver-gutenberg and libgutenprint2) as
reported by "aptitude show <packagename>". Should I find out about
actual increase in ISO size or do we trust the compression handling this
efficiently enough?
cheers
amette
> Cheers,
>
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