Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : onetime Version : 1.73 Upstream Author : Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.red-bean.com/onetime * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Python Description : A command-line encryption program based on the "one-time pad" method. Encoder/decoder for one-time pads. The usual public-key encryption programs, such as GPG, are probably secure for everyday purposes, but their implementations are too complex for all but the most knowledgeable programmers to vet, and anyway there are too many vulnerable steps in the supply chain between GPG's authors and the end user. Hence this script, OneTime, a simple encryption program that works with one-time pads. If you don't know what one-time pads are, you probably wouldn't be able to use them securely, so this program is not for you. If you do know what they are and how to use them, OneTime will take care of some of the pad-management bureacracy for you. It avoids re-using pad data (except when decrypting the same encrypted message twice, of course) by maintaining records of pad usage in ~/.onetime/pad-records. And if you keep your ~/.onetime configuration area under version control with Subversion or CVS, OneTime will automatically update it to get the latest pad usage records before using a pad, and will commit new records after using a pad. Thus, by sharing a single configuration area via version control, you and your interlocutors can transparently avoid the sin of pad range reuse. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad for more information about one-time pads in general; run 'onetime --help' for a detailed usage message about OneTime itself. OneTime is in the public domain. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
