On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 05:23:51PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > a few good reasons to remove cryptkeeper (and encfs) have been posted > on https://tails.boum.org/todo/remove_cryptkeeper/ > > The only Tails usecase where I know cryptkeeper has been useful, and > which is not covered by LUKS, and the only reason I know of to ship > cryptkeeper at all, is that it makes it possible (not really easy, but > still) to send an encrypted folder over the Internet, in the form of > an archive of the EncFS encrypted folder. > > Given we can't know for sure how Tails users use cryptkeeper, let's > say we would like to deprecate it in Tails, how do we do? I guess we > have to ship a wrapper around cryptkeeper in two major releases, that > announce cryptkeeper will disappear soon, and ask users to either > migrate their data, or convince us it's really strongly needed. > Looks like we should do this for the encfs command-line > application too.
Is Cryptkeeper installation much more difficult than a simple calling "apt-get install" or using the Synaptic Package Manager? If it's not, I think it would be fine to simply remove the package from a next release, and let users who need to use Cryptkeeper install the package by themselves. -- Ague
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