Still eagerly awaiting a response to my #pyzipper pull request. Waiting is so hard!

In the meantime, I've added zip and unzip commands to #passcrow, to facilitate creating #AES encrypted #ZIP archives with recoverable passwords.

I haven't pushed my changes, because they depend on the pyzipper updates.

Hacking on #pyzipper made me want to hack on #passcrow again.

I am starting to think I may need to find a more frequent use-case for #passcrow (https://passcrow.org/).

Data and key recovery is (IMO) super important and high value, but people will be more motivated to engage with and support something which they use every day. And without that support, the infra just won't be there when we need it for the rare disasters.

Anyway, this is just a random thought germinating in the soil of my subconscious.

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@cubicgarden ooh nice!

Kind of reminds me of @HerraBRE's #PassCrow:
https://www.passcrow.org/

@HerraBRE@floss.social My local #moggie now knows how to export search results as a .ZIP archive of AES-encrypted messages!

I've also enhanced #pyzipper so I can add unencrypted files to an otherwise encrypted archive, which means embedding #passcrow recovery support (and instructions) directly in the .ZIP is now feasible.

This is starting to tick all the security / portability / recoverability boxes.

I am very pleased!

Hello world! An #introduction.

I'm Bjarni, an Icelandic coder who mainly writes Python programs and gives them away as open source. My focus is on autonomy and privacy online; mostly relating to email (#mailpile) and the web (#pagekite).

I'm fluent in security (#passcrow), but I'm more excited by creating neat tools and empowering people, than I am in exploits and encryption algos.

I plan to use this account to discuss my work & hopefully connect with folks working on related things. Say hi!