[Bug 1394962] Review Request: clevis - Automated decryption framework

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394962



--- Comment #6 from Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek from comment #5)
> Also, I'm still stumped a bit by the %description... Imagine that you're a
> user who looks and 'dnf info' output:
> Clevis is a framework for automated decryption. It allows you to encrypt
> data using sophisticated unlocking policies which enable decryption to
> occur automatically.
> 
> It doesn't say *what* is being decrypted. It also gives no hint what those
> "sophisticated unlocking policies" might be. A package should not be a black
> box... Please make this a bit easier to understand.

Anything is being encrypted/decrypted. You're asking for more specificity in
the description of a subpackage that is the enabling technology for other
subpackages. The clevis package provides basic encryption/decryption policy
support. Users can use this directly. But most commonly, it will be used as a
building block for other packages.

For example, you can install clevis-dracut (which depends on clevis and
clevis-luks) to perform automated root volume decryption.

Simply put, the clevis package is the core functionality and is intentionally
vague.

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