On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Tarek Ziade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, > > Following up yesterday discussions on encryption key, I've started to > prototype a "Key Directory" service. > > The goal of the service is to allow people to discover other people's > public keys in the context of a 3rd party application, in order to be able > to do end-to-end encryptions of app data. > > The two use cases we have in mind are: > > - The password manager > - A file sharing application > > If users are collaborating on something encrypted, then key(s) used to encrypt that thing need to be stable. If users lose a shared resource because someone reset their password, that is bad. This makes me wary about using kB for any part of this infrastructure, although we might find a way. -chris > I started a bit of narrative here : > https://github.com/tarekziade/share/blob/master/README.rst > > and a prototype of how a client can look like, here : > https://github.com/tarekziade/share/blob/master/share.py - using NaCL > > Nothing fancy, but the goal is just to get a sense of the flow - and use > actual code in our discussions here so we avoid any misunderstandings :) > > If you have any feedback or ideas on the server's API please let me know! > > Cheers > Tarek > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > >
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