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Hello, my name is Angelos “aeroniero” Perivolaropoulos and I am a first |
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year Software Engineering student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. |
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This is a post introducing my blog |
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<https://blogs.gentoo.org/gsoc2016-gentoo-gpg/> about the progress of my |
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GSoC 2016 project called Gentoo-GPG. The project is divided in two parts, |
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one includes Gentoo-Keys improvements and will span for the first half of |
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the coding period, and the other includes the implementation of the new |
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MetaManifest system for the second half of the coding period. |
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Gentoo-Keys is a python based project that allows the user to encrypt and |
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sign their data by creating GPG-Keys. On the other hand, the new |
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MetaManifest system is a system that will provide a more efficient and |
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faster way to verify the integrity of Gentoo packages even over completely |
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untrusted networks. More technical details are included here |
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<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZCjQuuoymPBgEEOgCs3Evu44t5ZWxfKSjOdU1AfPcU/edit?usp=sharing> |
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in my proposal. |
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Currently, I am in the bonding period of the project, where my goal is to |
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understand the previous code of Gentoo-Keys more thoroughly and learn more |
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about how Portage and GPG work, but at the same time studying for my |
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finals, which was the reason this post was delayed. These past few weeks, I |
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have been looking at the code, reinstalled Gentoo on my laptop to make sure |
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it is working properly and be ready for testing, and started preparing a |
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pull request for maintenance of the previous Gentoo-Keys code. |
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This was the first update of the blog |
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<https://blogs.gentoo.org/gsoc2016-gentoo-gpg/> which will be updated |
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weekly showing the progress of the project. |
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– aeroniero |
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