From 27fd026cd5d1109316f056fafeb06706bc9b8eec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaromil Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:39:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] documentation updates also fix #319 --- AUTHORS.md | 4 ++-- README.md | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md index 1b73dd7..ba5e9bc 100644 --- a/AUTHORS.md +++ b/AUTHORS.md @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Shining the Translucent, Mancausoft, Asbesto Molesto, Nignux, TheJH, The Grugq, Reiven, GDrooid, Alphazo, Brian May, fsLeg, JoelMon, Narrat, Jerry Polfer, Jim Turner, Maxime Arthaud, RobertMX, mhogomchungu Mandeep Bhutani, Emil Lundberg, Joel Montes de Oca, Armin -Mesbah, Arusekk, Stephan Schindel, Asbjørn Apeland, Victor Calvert -and... the Linux Action Show! +Mesbah, Arusekk, Stephan Schindel, Asbjørn Apeland, Victor Calvert, +bjonnh, SargoDevel and... the Linux Action Show! Tomb includes an implementation of the "Password-Based Key Derivation Function v2" based on GCrypt and written by Anthony Thyssen. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0c40bc5..8ff2761 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ *A minimalistic commandline tool to manage encrypted volumes* aka **The Crypto Undertaker** -[![software by Dyne.org](https://www.dyne.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/software_by_dyne.png)](http://www.dyne.org) +[![software by Dyne.org](https://files.dyne.org/software_by_dyne.png)](http://www.dyne.org) More information and updates on website: https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Tomb aims to be a free and open source system for easy encryption and backup of personal files, written in code that is easy to review and links well reliable GNU/Linux components. -Tomb's ambition is to provide military-grade security by way of: +Tomb's ambition is to improve safety by way of: - a minimalist design consisting in small and well readable code - facilitation of good practices, i.e: key/storage physical separation @@ -181,10 +181,11 @@ shell routines kept being maintained and used for dyne:bolic until As of today, Tomb is a very stable tool also used in mission critical situations by a number of activists in dangerous zones. It has been -reviewed by forensics analysts and it can be considered to be safe for -military grade use where the integrity of information stored depends -on the user's behaviour and the strength of a standard AES-256 (XTS -plain) encryption algorithm. +reviewed by forensics analysts and it can be considered safe for +adoption where the integrity of information stored depends on the +user's behaviour and the strength of a standard AES-256 (XTS plain) +encryption algorithm (current default) or, at one's option, other +equivalent standards supported by the Linux kernel. ## Compatibility @@ -193,6 +194,9 @@ some are developed by Dyne.org, but some also by third parties. ### Included extra applications +These auxiliary applications are found in the extras/ subdirectory of +distributed Tomb's sourcecode: + - [GTomb](extras/gtomb) is a graphical interface using zenity - [gtk-tray](extras/gtk-tray) is a graphical tray icon for GTK panels - [qt-tray](extras/qt-tray) is a graphical tray icon for QT panels @@ -202,6 +206,9 @@ some are developed by Dyne.org, but some also by third parties. ### External applications +The following applications are not included in Tomb's distributed +sourcecode, but are known and tested to be compatible with Tomb: + - [Secrets](https://secrets.dyne.org) is a software that can be operated on-line and on-site to split a Tomb key in shares to be distributed to peers: some of them have to agree to combine back the shares in order to retrieve the key. - [zuluCrypt](https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/) is a graphical application to manage various types of encrypted volumes on GNU/Linux, among them also Tombs, written in C++. @@ -211,7 +218,7 @@ some are developed by Dyne.org, but some also by third parties. - [pass-tomb](https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb) is a console based wrapper of the excellent password keeping program [pass](https://www.passwordstore.org) that helps to keep the whole tree of password encrypted inside a tomb. It is written in Bash. -If you are writing a project supporting tomb volumes or wrapping tomb, let us know! +If you are writing a project supporting Tomb volumes or wrapping Tomb, let us know! ## Compliancy