Hi Seahorse community,
I'm part of the people developing the live system called Tails [1].
Tails has a strong focus on privacy, anonymity, encryption, etc. and of
course includes Seahorse.
We are now preparing a bounties program to help upstream developers work
on important bugs or interesting features for Tails. And we would like
to propose three bounty opportunities to the Seahorse community.
We are still in the process of deciding which bounties we can fund
within our budget. So those are only proposals and there is no amount of
money associated to them yet. If any of you is interested, please send
an email to tails boum org and include:
- A short intro to who you are and the work you've already done in
Seahorse.
- A estimate workload to fulfill the task.
- A budget and calendar proposal.
Keep in mind that your estimates should include coding, review,
debugging and documentation. Stef Walter volunteered to support and
mentor people working on this (correct me if I'm wrong).
We want to close this first round of proposals by the beginning of March.
SSH Keys in Seahorse
====================
The import of SSH keys in Seahorse doesn't work.
That's GNOME bug #550736, and still holds on Fedora 18 Live:
- Importing a SSH public key returns: "Cannot display a file of this
type." error message.
- Importing a SSH private key returns: "No user has logged in." after
being asked for the passphrase and a label.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550736
As far as I understood, this is a larger scale issue related to
gnome-keyring. Maybe Stef Walter can provide more information on this.
We propose a bounty to fix this bug.
Symmetric file encryption in Seahorse Nautilus
==============================================
The `gpg` command-line can do symmetric encryption and we like to
propose this type of encryption as a valid alternative to asymmetric
encryption in certain use cases.
Seahorse Nautilus can decrypt a symmetrically encrypted file but do not
propose symmetric encryption as of now.
That's GNOME bug #325803:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325803
We propose a bounty to implement this feature.
Signature verification in Seahorse Nautilus
===========================================
Seahorse Nautilus should provide a menu entry to check either detached
signature or text messages with cleartext signatures.
I couldn't find a corresponding GNOME bug even though the issue affects
Fedora 18. But there is a Ubuntu bug to track this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse-nautilus/+bug/995623
We propose a bounty to implement this feature.
Thank you for your attention,
--
sajolida
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature