| PackageDescription | tool for running and interacting with trusted collections
Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary
collections of data.
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The Notary project comprises a server (cmd/notary-server) and a client
(cmd/notary) for running and interacting with trusted collections.
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Notary aims to make the internet more secure by making it easy for people to
publish and verify content. We often rely on TLS to secure our communications
with a web server which is inherently flawed, as any compromise of the server
enables malicious content to be substituted for the legitimate content.
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With Notary, publishers can sign their content offline using keys kept highly
secure. Once the publisher is ready to make the content available, they can
push their signed trusted collection to a Notary Server.
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Consumers, having acquired the publisher's public key through a secure
channel, can then communicate with any notary server or (insecure) mirror,
relying only on the publisher's key to determine the validity and integrity
of the received content.
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This package contains the binaries/tools. |