[HacktionLab] Electronic sealed envelope system?

Garcon du Monde gdm at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Nov 4 17:40:20 UTC 2012


On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:23:36PM +0000, Alan Dawson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:58:59PM +0000, Brent wrote:
> > A related idea is the 'deadswitch', where if someone doesn't check in to a
> > system regularly it emails a preset message out.
> 
> yeah.. I worked on something called "canary" a little while ago.
> 
> If I remember properly there were to parts.
> 
> 1. A canary which would post a gpg signed message every $TIMEINTERVAL
> 2. A listener, which would read the canary every $TIMEINTERVAL.  If the $TIMEINTERVAL had exipred the canary was declared dead.
> 
> Not sure where the code is now.
> 
> If I can find it I'll post a link.

i have a bunch of code for this project, too - would really like to
resurrect it, although it hasn't been high up my list of
priorities. i'll try to dig out what i've got, and perhaps we can
combine efforts.

solidarity,

	--gdm

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