DRAFT: Nothing has been decided yet. Much better places to get further information:
- https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/age-api
- https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-adding-age-verification/22969
age-api provides a minimal local mechanism to store an age bracket and query it for age-signaling use cases.
The age-api-query tool outputs a machine-readable age bracket number on stdout and a human-readable description on stderr.
DRAFT: Final implementation - if any - would look much different from what is currently implemented.
See also: https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/age-api
1. Download the APT Signing Key.
wget https://www.kicksecure.com/keys/derivative.asc
Users can check the Signing Key for better security.
2. Add the APT Signing Key.
sudo cp ~/derivative.asc /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc
3. Add the derivative repository.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] https://deb.kicksecure.com trixie main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list
4. Update your package lists.
sudo apt-get update
5. Install age-api.
sudo apt-get install age-api
Can be build using standard Debian package build tools such as:
dpkg-buildpackage -b
See instructions.
NOTE: Replace generic-package with the actual name of this package age-api.
- A) easy, OR
- B) including verifying software signatures
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