[Savannah-register-public] [task #5862] Submission of Apso

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?5862>

                 Summary: Submission of Apso
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: pellegrini
            Submitted on: Thursday 08/31/2006 at 07:50
         Should Start On: Thursday 08/31/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sunday 09/10/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


== REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION ==

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or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group
Administration" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively
logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8753>


== REGISTRATION DETAILS ==

Full Name:
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  *Apso*

System Group Name:
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  *apso*

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  Apso is a framework for adding secrecy to distributed version control
systems by creating encrypted versions of repositories. This makes it
possible to keep repositories in hostile hosts. Apso supports pluggable
version control systems and cryptographic libraries.

The only version control system supported at this point is Monotone; and the
only cryptographic library is Nettle.

Apso can be found (source only) here:
http://aleph0.info/apso

Other Software Required:
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  * Boost (http://boost.org)

And the plugins are:

* Monotone (http://venge.net/monotone)
* Nettle   (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/)

Other Comments:
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  This comment is probably not necessary, but I'd like to include it anyway,
since a few Free Software developers have informally said to me that they
don't think Apso is interesting for Free Software users and developers.

Although it may seem that Apso is not good for Free software (because it
"helps hide source code", I'd like to point out that:

- People may want to keep their homework secret (I know places where, if two
students present the same code to a teacher, they both get into serious
trouble -- regardless of who's guilty)

- A PhD thesis is also a good candidate for encrypted version control (both
programs and text documents)

- Configurations inside a company (I am not supposed to say more about this,
but security-related configuration can be stored in concurrent version
control systems)

- Distributed version control systems can also work as easy incremental
backup (of *anything*, not just programs!)

So, taht's it. I think the users should have access to technology like Apso,
since it doesn't actually take away nobody's freedom.

Thank you very much.








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