Tomb/TODO.org

• Release 1.0
  • make one single status handle more tombs
  • decorate creation wizard with ASCII art
  • remove gnome dependencies from tomb core
  • SLAM tomb and kill all applications using it
  • fix operation without DISPLAY (over SSH)
  • steganography to store tomb key
  • use a posix thread instead of fork for status close
  • use a config file to map bind mounts
  • desktop integration the freedesktop way
  • debian packaging with desktop integration
  • Avoid overwriting key on exhume on same filename
  • Should refuse opening a tomb that is already open
• Release 2.0
  • New features
    • system to split keys in parts (ssss)
    • use inotify on tomb
    • udev rules to avoid usb automount of keyplug in gnome
    • sign and verify tomb script integrity (executed as root)
    • Internationalization using gettext
    • make a gnome tomb undertaker using gnome-druid in glade
    • tomb locksmith for key management
    • transport keys and integrity checksums on qrcodes
    • analyse and show tomb entropy using libdisorder
    • indeep security analysis of possible vulnerabilities
    • more gtk dialogs for configurations? keep it minimal!
• Porting to Win$loth
• Porting to Apple/OSX

TODO and Roadmap for Tomb

you are welcome to send patches to jaromil@dyne.org

Issue tracking is now handled via GitHub, see http://github.com/dyne/Tomb

Old roadmap notes:

DONE Release 1.0   100%

TODO [C] make one single status handle more tombs

TODO [C] decorate creation wizard with ASCII art

DONE [B] remove gnome dependencies from tomb core   jaromil

gksu is deeply connected to gnome in all its packages. actually libgksu2-dev is and that doesn't helps.

gksu binary is a very simple and dirty code, we should have tomb-ask to use the libgksu library for privilege escalation, but then this would add the dependency into C linking…

the solution is for now to detect if gksu is present, else fallback to sudo and provide it an interface to ask the password graphically via pinentry

DONE [B] SLAM tomb and kill all applications using it   anathema

using lsof and fuser(1) we can do that easily

we should ask user confirmation when closing a tomb if to slam

tomb-askpass will become tomb-ask managing such user interaction, using libassuan and pinentry from the gpg project.

DONE [B] fix operation without DISPLAY (over SSH)   hellekin

DONE [A] steganography to store tomb key   jaromil

steghide can hide keys in JPG, BMP, WAV or AU files it also takes care of compressing end encrypting the key file so we don't necessarily need gpg… it has Serpent and AES256 (CBC)

DONE [A] use a posix thread instead of fork for status close   jaromil

DONE [A] use a config file to map bind mounts   jaromil

done as file 'bind-hooks' inside tom. also 'post-hooks' is executed as user in case symlinks are needed and so

using mount -o bind we can trigger actions to be made after mounting a tomb so that personal directories appear in the home folder.

DONE [A] desktop integration the freedesktop way   jaromil

DONE [B] debian packaging with desktop integration   jaromil

DONE [A] Avoid overwriting key on exhume on same filename

DONE [A] Should refuse opening a tomb that is already open   jaromil

TODO Release 2.0   00%

Must be 100% backward compatible with tombs created with 1.0

New features

[A] system to split keys in parts (ssss)

[A] use inotify on tomb

inotify can also count when was the last time tomb was used and unmount it automatically after a timeout, see how much free space is left and warn when the space is almost finished

[A] udev rules to avoid usb automount of keyplug in gnome

[A] sign and verify tomb script integrity (executed as root)

TODO [B] Internationalization using gettext   jaromil

Started generating the strings, still need to figure out how to install it

[B] make a gnome tomb undertaker using gnome-druid in glade

[B] tomb locksmith for key management

a graphical tool or text wizard to move keys in/out steganography as well split them

[B] transport keys and integrity checksums on qrcodes

[B] analyse and show tomb entropy using libdisorder

[B] indeep security analysis of possible vulnerabilities

[C] more gtk dialogs for configurations? keep it minimal!

TODO Porting to Win$loth

using FReeOTFE http://www.freeotfe.org

or at least make it compatible with http://www.sdean12.org/SecureTrayUtil.htm

TODO Porting to Apple/OSX

still to be investigated what's there that supports cryptsetup-luks volumes