Bug 255694 - New port: security/tang: Small daemon for binding data to the presence of a network
Summary: New port: security/tang: Small daemon for binding data to the presence of a n...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Neel Chauhan
URL: https://github.com/latchset/tang
Keywords:
Depends on: 255693
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Reported: 2021-05-07 23:17 UTC by Howard Holm
Modified: 2021-05-10 01:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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The port files in diff format (2.83 KB, patch)
2021-05-07 23:17 UTC, Howard Holm
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Description Howard Holm 2021-05-07 23:17:39 UTC
Created attachment 224758 [details]
The port files in diff format

A new port of github.com/latchset/tang

Tang is a server for binding data to network presence.

This sounds fancy, but the concept is simple. You have some data, but you only
want it to be available when the system containing the data is on a certain,
usually secure, network. This is where Tang comes in.

First, the client gets a list of the Tang server's advertised asymmetric keys.
This can happen online by a simple HTTP GET. Alternatively, since the keys are
asymmetric, the public key list can be distributed out of band.

Second, the client uses one of these public keys to generate a unique,
cryptographically strong encryption key. The data is then encrypted using this
key. Once the data is encrypted, the key is discarded. Some small metadata is
produced as part of this operation which the client should store in a convenient
location. This process of encrypting data is the provisioning step.

Third, when the client is ready to access its data, it simply loads the metadata
produced in the provisioning step and performs an HTTP POST in order to recover
the encryption key. This process is the recovery step.

This requires jose, which is being separately submitted.
Comment 1 Neel Chauhan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-10 01:24:08 UTC
Committed!
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-10 01:24:50 UTC
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=996a6909ee6ea04ffc6962af5167811629275096

commit 996a6909ee6ea04ffc6962af5167811629275096
Author:     Howard Holm <hdholm@alumni.iastate.edu>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-10 01:21:25 +0000
Commit:     Neel Chauhan <nc@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-10 01:23:51 +0000

    New port: security/tang: Small daemon for binding data to the presence of a network

    PR:     255694

 security/Makefile             |  1 +
 security/tang/Makefile (new)  | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/tang/distinfo (new)  |  3 +++
 security/tang/pkg-descr (new) | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 security/tang/pkg-plist (new) |  8 ++++++++
 5 files changed, 63 insertions(+)