Feature #6763: Include nautilus-gtkhash

Feature #6763

Include nautilus-gtkhash

Added by alant 2014-02-24 18:06:14 . Updated 2014-07-22 23:01:13 .

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Category:

Target version:

Tails_1.1

Start date:

2014-02-24

Due date:

% Done:

80%

Feature Branch:

feature/6763-include-nautilus-gtkhash

Type of work:

Code

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Description

nautilus-gtkhash is a “nautilus extension for computing checksums and more using”

“The GtkHash extension for nautilus which allows users to compute message digests or checksums using the mhash library. Currently supported hash functions include MD5, MD6, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, RIPEMD, TIGER and WHIRLPOOL.”

It is available in wheezy debian repositories

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History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2014-02-27 08:33:24

Are you proposing this with a particular core use case of Tails in mind? Or just as a additional general-purpose crypto tool?

#2 Updated by bertagaz 2014-03-02 11:16:16

Could say both: it might be useful for people willing to use one of our nightly builds, as the ISO verification process implies to verify its hash.

A simple app to help people verifying hashes in Tails is potentially an interesting feature anyway, if they want to verify the integrity of software or whatever data they downloaded. This is a widely used way of doing that.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-03-31 13:21:17

Type of work changed from Code to Discuss

Added to the agenda for the April meeting, so that we decide something eventually. It would be good if the proponents of this proposal provided the needed data beforehand, e.g. how much it adds to the ISO size, existing alternatives (if any) and why this one was chosen, testing reports…

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-03-31 13:22:16

Status changed from Confirmed to New
Type of work changed from Discuss to Code

#5 Updated by sajolida 2014-04-03 18:02:50

Status changed from New to Confirmed
Type of work changed from Code to Discuss

Since we’ll talk about it in the April meeting, let’s move it to Discuss, and away from New.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2014-04-03 18:03:30

Subject changed from Please include nautilus-gtkhash to Include nautilus-gtkhash

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2014-04-09 20:24:01

Type of work changed from Discuss to Code

The feature seems sound to have in Tails, and there is apparently no
alternative in Debian. nautilus-gtkhash seems well maintained in
Debian, has been tested on Tails/Wheezy, and installing it in there
only requires to download 89kB of .deb’s.

So, at the monthly meeting we decided to install it in Tails 1.1.