Thanks for your quick response and sorry for writing you back a bit late.
I have been talking with our Developers and they started to work on the
Debian Repository, we hope this cycle can be good for both of us.
I will send you more details in the future.
Best Regards,
Vaas, DeepOnion.org Moderator.
On 7 May 2018 at 08:10, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Vaas !:
> > In the past I contacted your project regarding to donations for your
> > platform, DeepOnion is an anonymous Cryptocurrency that uses Tor and we
> > have been donating to the Tor project just to be grateful for their
> > development, also helping with more Nodes to the network.
>
> > People from the Tails Project said that it could work if we create a
> Debian
> > Repository for it since your software uses Debian and we can handle this
> > with our Development Team. I just want to update our conversation, to
> know
> > if we should go on with this Development and also if you can consider to
> > use our Wallet in your pre installed apps (maybe some download app) from
> > your OS in the future (of course this is not something that you must do
> but
> > we would be happy for it since some of our users use Tails).
>
> There are two aspects to this:
>
> 1. Allowing Tails users to use DeepOnion
>
> Once your client software is in Debian (stable or worst case
> stable backports), then Tails users will be able to easily install
> and use it. If needed we can ship whatever tiny config file is
> needed to make it go through Tor so that it works out of the box.
>
> Creating a third-party Debian repository would also work but using
> that is much harder (for Tails users) to set up and the amount of
> trust they have to put into your project and its infrastructure is
> much greater. So this might be a reasonable first step but I would
> suggest you don't stop and that and instead include your software
> in Debian proper :)
>
> 2. Accepting donations to Tails with DeepOnion
>
> It seems that every cryptocurrency project around there has been
> getting in touch with us in the last 2 years, requesting that we
> accept donations made with their tool. We work with limited
> resources and can definitely not support them all. If somebody
> built an unbiased comparison that allowed us to draw a conclusion
> like "it would be worth the effort to support cryptocurrency X,
> here's how you would do it" then we might do it. But so far I've
> not seen this happen. Needless to say, members of cryptocurrency
> projects are not the best placed people to build such an unbiased
> summary :)
>
> And most of the time, to accept such donations we would need to run
> software ourselves that's not in Debian, which our internal teams'
> security policy forbids ⇒ point #1 above is relevant here as well.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri
>
