Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Document that Submission Keys with Passphrases are not supported by SecureDrop Workstation #281

Closed
nathandyer opened this issue Dec 6, 2024 · 2 comments

Comments

@nathandyer
Copy link
Contributor

Although we recommend against setting a passphrase for the submission private key when setting up a SecureDrop Server, it is possible that one has been set by a user anyway. While this works for the classic SecureDrop Tails system on the Secure Viewing Station, trying to import a Submission Key with a passphrase set will result in an error when running sdw-admin --validate, and cannot be used by the Client.

We should add a note to the documentation explaining that Submission Keys with Passphrases are not supported.

Additionally, I recommend that we suggest that users reach out to support in the event that they have a submission key with a passphrase set so we can assist with exporting a version without a passphrase set (I feel these instructions are specific/obscure enough to not merit being added to the public documentation, but if others feel differently I'd be open to including them in the docs as well).

@zenmonkeykstop
Copy link
Contributor

Is this a dupe of #95 ?

@nathandyer
Copy link
Contributor Author

Ah yup - will close this one and add comments into the existing thread

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants