Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Clean Room GSoC Mentoring

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Author: Andrew Gallagher
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Clean Room GSoC Mentoring

> On 4 Mar 2018, at 00:13, Jacob Adams <tookmund@???> wrote:
>
> The biggest hurdle I faced when setting up my GPG key was creating and
> storing it offline. I am looking to create a proper interface for a PGP
> Clean Room Live CD that walks a user through setting up a set of USB
> flash drives or sd cards as a raid disk, generating new GPG keys,
> storing them there, and then exporting subkeys either on a separate USB
> stick or a security key like a Yubikey. I'd also like to add the ability
> to do things like revoke keys or extend expiration dates for them
> through the application. You can see more of the ideas behind the
> project here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/CleanRoomForPGPKeyManagement
>
> Such an application could also run on TAILS, although for safety reasons
> probably only when networking is disabled.


Hi, Jacob.

I have a rudimentary tails-based solution at https://github.com/andrewgdotcom/frith that you may be interested in. I haven’t had much time to work on it recently, so it’s not very polished. But it does most of what you are asking for. Feel free to contact me off list.

Andrew.