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Les problèmes de PGP
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:date: 2015-05-25
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:headline: Quels sont les soucis liés à PGP, que faire ?
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.. epigraph::
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Flip a bit in the communication between sender and recipient and they will
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experience decryption or verification errors. How high are the chances they
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will start to exchange the data in the clear rather than trying to hunt down
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the man in the middle?
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-- http://secushare.org/PGP
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Une fois passé l'euphorie du "il faut utiliser PGP pour l'ensemble de nos
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communications", j'ai réalisé lors de discussions que PGP avait plusieurs
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problèmes, parmi ceux-ci:
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- Les *meta données* (y compris le champ "sujet" de la conversation) sont quand
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même échangées en clair (il est possible de savoir qu'un message à été échangé
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entre telle et telle personne, a telle date);
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- PGP se base sur un protocole de communication qui est lui non chiffré, et il
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est donc facile de soit se tromper, soit dégrader le mode de conversation vers
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une méthode non chiffrée;
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- Il est facile de connaître votre réseau social avec PGP, puisque tout le
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principe est de signer les clés des personnes dont vous validez l'identité;
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- En cas de fuite de votre clé privée, tous les messages que vous avez chiffrés
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avec elle sont compromis. On dit que PGP ne fournit pas de *forward secrecy*;
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- La découverte de la clé de pairs se passe souvent *en clair*, sans utiliser une
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connexion "sécurisée" (HTTPS). Tout le monde peut donc voir ces échanges et
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savoir de qui vous cherchez la clé;
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- Les discussions de groupes sont très difficiles: il faut chiffrer pour chacun
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des destinataires (ou que ceux-ci partagent une paire de clés).
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Je suis en train de creuser à propos les alternatives à PGP, par exemple `Pond
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<https://pond.imperialviolet.org/>`_, qui lui ne construit pas par dessus un
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standard déjà établi, et donc n'hérite pas de ses défauts (mais pas non plus de
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son réseau déjà établi).
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En attendant, quelques bonnes pratiques sur PGP ;)
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Bonnes pratiques
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Il est en fait assez facile d'utiliser PGP de travers. Riseup à fait `un
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excellent guide
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<https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices>`_
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qui explique comment configurer son installation correctement.
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- J'en ai déjà parlé, mais il faut absolument choisir des phrases de passes
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suffisamment longues. Pas facile de les retenir, mais indispensable. Vous
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pouvez aussi avoir un document chiffré avec une clé que vous ne mettez jamais
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en ligne, qui contiens ces phrases de passe, au cas ou vous les oubliez.
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- Générez des clés RSA de 4096 bits, en utilisant sha512;
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- Il faut utiliser une date d'expiration de nos clés suffisamment proche (2
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ans). Il est possible de repousser cette date si nécessaire, par la suite.
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Parmi les choses les plus frappantes que j'ai rencontrées:
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- Utiliser le *flag* `–hidden-recipient` avec PGP pour ne pas dévoiler qui est
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le destinataire du message;
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- Ne pas envoyer les messages de brouillons sur votre serveur, ils le seraient
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en clair !;
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- Utilisez HPKS pour communiquer avec les serveurs de clés, sinon tout le
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trafic est en clair.
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Le `projet Bitmask <https://bitmask.net/>`_ vise lui à rendre les outils de
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chiffrement d'échanges de messages et de VPN simples à utiliser, encore quelque
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chose à regarder.
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Enfin bref, y'a du taf.
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.. image:: {filename}/static/porte.jpg
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:alt: Un peu d'ombre.
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Web distribution signing
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:lang: en
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:date: 2015-06-29
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:headline: Bringing trust back between software authors and user agents.
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.. note:: I'm not a crypto expert, nor pretend to be one. These are thoughts
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I want to share with the crypto community to actually see if any
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solution exists to solve this particular problem.
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One `often pointed <http://www.tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto>`_
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flaw in web-based cryptographic applications is the fact that there is no way
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to trust online software distributions. Put differently, you don't actually
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trust the software authors but are rather trusting the software distributors
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and certificate authorities (CAs).
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Attack vectors
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==============
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Let's try to describe a few potential attacks:
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*Application Authors* just released a new version of their open source web
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crypto messaging application. *Indie Hoster* installs it on their servers so
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that a wide audience can actually use it.
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Someone alters the files on *Indie Hoster* servers, effectively replacing them with
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other *altered files* with less security properties / a backdoor. This someone could either be
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*Evil Attacker* or *Indie Hoster* which can already alter these files because
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they're distributing them.
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Trusted *Certificate Authorities* (read "governments") can also trick to
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User Agents (i.e. Firefox) into thinking they're talking to *Indie Hoster* even
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if they're actually talking to a different party.
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**Altered files** are being served to the User Agents, and *Evil Attacker* now
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has a way to actually attack the end users.
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Problem Mitigation
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I hope it's clear by now that we miss a way to create trust between
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*Application Authors* and *User Agents*. The User-Agent has to trust
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*Certificate Authorities* and *Indie Hoster*.
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I believe this specific problem had been solved, at least partially, for
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desktop software distribution: *Crypto Experts* audit the software, sign it
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somehow and then this signature can be checked locally during installation or
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runtime.
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For web applications, we don't have such a mechanism, but it should be
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possible. Consider the following:
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- *App Authors* publish a new version of their software; They provide a hash of
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each of their distributed files;
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- *Crypto Experts* audit these files and sign the hashes with their private
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key;
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- *User Agents* have a way to add the certificate for *Crypto Experts*;
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- When a *User Agent* downloads files, it checks if they're signed.
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Chosing who you trust
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.. note:: And now is the time I start talking about things I don't know. But
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maybe you trust me?
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In terms of user experience, handling certificates is hard, and that's where
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the community matters. Distributions such as `Tails <https://tails.boom.org>`_
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could chose who they trust to verify the files, and issue warnings / refuse to
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run the application in case files aren't verified.
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But, as highligted earlier, CAs are hard to trust. A new instance of the same
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CA system wouldn't make that much differences, expect the fact that
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distributions could ship with a set of trusted authorities (for which
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revocation would still need to be taken care of).
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.. epigraph::
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[...] users are vulnerable to MitM attacks by the authority, which can vouch
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for, or be coerced to vouch for, false keys. This weakness has been
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highlighted by recent CA scandals. Both schemes can also be attacked if the
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authority does not verify keys before vouching for them.
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-- `SoK : Secure Messaging <http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2015/cacr2015-02.pdf>`_;
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It seems that some other systems could allow for something more reliable:
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.. epigraph::
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Melara et al proposed CONIKS, using a series of chained commitments to Merkle
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prefix trees to build a key directory [...] for which individual users can
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efficiently verify the consistency of their own entry in the directory
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without relying on a third party.
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This “self- auditing log” approach makes the system partially have no
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auditing required (as general auditing of non-equivocation is still required)
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and also enables the system to be privacy preserving as the entries in the
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directory need not be made public. This comes at a mild bandwidth cost not
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reflected in our table, estimated to be about 10 kilobytes per client per day
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for self-auditing.
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-- `SoK : Secure Messaging <http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2015/cacr2015-02.pdf>`_;
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Now, I honestly have no idea if this thing is practicable, and I'm pretty sure
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this design has many security problems attached to it. But that's a problem
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I would really like to see solved one day, so here the start of the discussion,
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don't hesitate to `get in touch </pages/about.html>`_!
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:slug: about
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(english version below)
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.. note:: There is an english version of this page below.
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Je suis un développeur logiciel intéressé par l'écologie, l'éducation
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(populaire !), la thématique agricole et le *Do It Yourself* (DIY).
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You can find most of the computer related projects I am involved with
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`on my github page <http://github.com/ametaireau>`_, on `the Mozilla services
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github page <https://github.com/mozilla-services>`_ or on `the Spiral project
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page <http://github.com/spiral-project/>`_
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page <http://github.com/spiral-project/>`_.
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Don't hesitate to contact me at `alexis at notmyidea org`. The associated
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public key is `0x078805D867F56F12 </static/alexis.notmyidea.org.asc>`_.
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existants, en terme de collaboration notamment. Voici quelques logiciels dont
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je suis l'auteur ou un des contributeurs.
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Projets personnels
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Pelican
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`Pelican <http://getpelican.com>`_ est un générateur de site statique. Son
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objectif est de permettre de trasformer des fichiers sur votre disque en blog
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libre et gratuit à Google forms.
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Projets professionnels
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======================
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Kinto et Cliquet
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`Kinto <https://github.com/mozilla-services/kinto>`_ et `Cliquet
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<https://github.com/mozilla-services/cliquet>`_ sont les successeurs
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spirituels de Daybed. L'idée est toujours la même: stocker des données en
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ligne, les partager et les synchroniser.
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Rémy, Mathieu, Nicolas et moi travaillons en ce moment sur ce projet pour
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Mozilla.
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Firefox Hello
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`Firefox Hello <https://firefox.com/hello>`_ est un moyen d'établir des
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communications pair à pair en utilisant Firefox. Contrairement à d'autres
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solutions, les communications ne passent par un tiers que lorsque cela est
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absolument necessaire.
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J'ai écrit avec Rémy `le serveur de mise en relation
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<https://github.com/mozilla-services/loop-server>`_.
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Circus
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`Circus <https://github.com/circus-tent/circus>`_ est un gestionnaire de
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processus. C'est un logiciel *coté serveur* dont l'objectif est de veiller
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sur les programmes qui s'executent afin de les relancer en cas d'échec.
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J'ai rejoint Tarek et Benoit sur le projet après qu'ils aient entammé le plus
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gros du travail.
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Cornice
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`Cornice <http://github.com/mozilla-services/cornice>`_ tente de rendre plus
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simple la création de services web en mutualisant les bonnes pratiques.
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Tarek à écrit la première version du logiciel que j'ai ensuite retravaillé
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pour rendre les évolutions plus simples.
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Je n'indique ici que certains des projets auquels je contribue, vous pouvez en
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trouver d'autres sur `mon profil GitHub <https://github.com/ametaireau>`_.
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