[[!meta title="Report on the 2013 Tails bounty program"]] [[!meta date="Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:36:35 +0000"]] [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]] Thanks to the [Knight Foundation](http://www.knightfoundation.org/) and to the [Tor project](https://www.torproject.org/), we have organized a bounty program to improve software upon which Tails is relying. The recruiting process was long and not exactly easy, some projects did not reach completion... but four of them were successful! [[!toc levels=1]] Removable USB in *libvirt* ========================== Support for [marking emulated USB devices as removable](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922495) was added [libvirt](http://libvirt.org) and [virt-manager](http://virt-manager.org/). This was merged upstream by October 2013. Symmetric file encryption and signature verification in *Seahorse Nautilus* =========================================================================== Support for symmetric encryption was added to the user interface which is presented by Seahorse Nautilus on right-click → Encrypt. Additionally, support for checking both detached signatures and text messages with cleartext signatures, as well reporting on their validity, was added to the Nautilus contextual menu. This involved patching seahorse-nautilus, shared-mime-info, and libcryptui. Relevant tickets: - - [[!gnomebug 325803]] - [[!gnomebug 699161]] - - [[!gnomebug 708640]] The patches were merged upstream by December 2013. Packaging and improving *keyringer* =================================== Various improvements to [keyringer](https://keyringer.pw/) were delivered, to make it more usable and easier to install: - Debian packaging - man page - Bash and Zsh completion All the deliverables were approved by December 2013, and keyringer is now [[!debpkg keyringer desc="available in Debian"]]. Exporting ikiwiki tickets to Redmine ==================================== A custom ikiwiki plugin was written to help importing from the old Tails task tracker to Redmine. This included exporting ticket name, tags, and parent/child relationships in a format suitable for importing into Redmine, and creating rewrite rules to redirect ikiwiki URLs to Redmine. All the deliverables were approved by August 2013. 887 tickets were imported in our new [Redmine project](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?query_id=108). Encrypted `/me` IRC messages in *Pidgin OTR* ============================================ The goal was to make it so /me messages in OTR conversations, when using IRC in Pidgin, are encrypted just like regular messages typed in this context. The person we contacted to work on this bounty was not able to finish the work in due time. Since then, someone else worked on a patch, that we have successfully tested, and that is now waiting for review in the upstream bug tracker. Ticket: Support for importing SSH keys with Seahorse ============================================ The goal was to allow [importing public and private SSH keys]([importing public and private SSH keys) with [Seahorse](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse). The person we contacted to work on this bounty was not able to finish the work. Improve Vidalia =============== The goals were to make Vidalia better adapted to Tails needs, and to turn some of our patches into options available in the upstream code. More specifically: - Adapt Vidalia UI to allow users to avoid connecting to the public Tor network. - Support a HideSharing option in `vidalia.conf` to hide the "Sharing" tab of the Vidalia preferences window - Support a HideNewCircuit option in `vidalia.conf` to hide every control that trigger the "New identity" feature of Vidalia. Tickets: - - [[!tor_bug 2905]] - [[!tails_ticket 5305]] The person we contacted to work on this bounty disappeared before signing the contract.