wiki:CryptoPlugin

Version 5 (modified by Steffen Hoffmann, 9 years ago) (diff)

revise table headers

Cryptography for Trac

Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.

Description

CryptoPlugin supports cryptographically backed functions in Trac.

This is WiP and in a very early stage. Nevertheless testers are very welcome.

Why? Privacy offered based on these functions is much different compared to other privacy-related plugins, and reports about your expectations as well as your findings will help them mature and match your needs.

Tab.: Privacy offered by a Trac system depending on setup and user action

installationTrac, no pluginsother plugins installedCryptoPlugin installed
modules stateenableddisabledenableddisableddisabledenabledenabled
session setting (per user)n. a.n. a.n. a.Trusted serverTrusted clientTrusted serverTrusted client

signed content

  1. a.
  1. a.
  1. a.

weak

weak

weak

weak

secured content

  1. a.

none

strong

strong

very strong

strong

very strong

Privacy strength rating legend:

n. a.

not applicable

none

no protection, not counting read-only wiki pages for (very weak) privacy

weak

prevents unrecognized content change without read-protection

strong

depending on server security of Trac system software (plugins included) and storage for Trac content and private user keys

very strong

depending on client security for private user key storage

ultimate

independent of client and server security for private user key storage

Regular content is accessible as per applicable TracPermissions settings, and users can save content without additional protection regardless of other options, if available at all. Since it is the same for any setup, it's not worth mentioning this type of content in the table above.

While Trac plugins other than CryptoPlugin (incomplete list follows)

attempt to protect only some part ('realm') of Trac's content, they do not differentiate in terms of protection strength, so they're rated together for simplicity here.

Ultimate privacy doesn't assume any trust outside of Trac system software (plugins included). This kind of inherit Trac content protection is neither available nor planned yet.

So you have to decide now, if the available protection is enough for your data. Likely there are not many web services, that grant at least strong protection without installation of special software at client side, and if so, they certainly do not offer Trac's documentation and bug-tracking capabilities.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for CryptoPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:cryptoplugin here].

Source

You can check out CryptoPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Example

Recent Changes

11813 by hasienda on 2012-07-27 22:48:39
CryptoPlugin: Implement some functionality now, starting with OpenPGP, refs #10030 and #10080.
11812 by hasienda on 2012-07-27 22:24:28
CryptoPlugin: Add blank user preferences page, refs #10080.
11811 by hasienda on 2012-07-27 22:18:35
CryptoPlugin: Create basic i18n infrastructure, refs #10080.
(more)

Author/Contributors

Author: hasienda
Maintainer: hasienda
Contributors: