Dear developers, I am considering activating encryption of popularity-contest submissions using public key cryptography to protect popcon submission while in transit.
This means - The popularity-contest package will include a public key that will be used to encrypt report. - The popcon.debian.org server will know the matching private key and use it to decrypt report before storing them. - The key will be changed for each stable Debian release. The drawback is the computing cost on the server. Currently we are processing about 25000 report each days, which would require about 2 hours of 'real' CPU time to decrypt, which is too much for popov.debian.org. On the other hand this is easily parallelisable. So before I proceed we need to decide as a project whether this is a worthwhile use of resource. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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