Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs
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dev_scripts: Install Poetry via pipx
We can no longer install Poetry via `pip`, since Debian Bookworm now
enforces PEP 668, meaning that both `pip install poetry` and `pip
install --user poetry` cannot work [1]. Since we use the same
installation steps for all of our dev environments, we need to find a
common way to install Poetry.

Poetry's website provides several ways to install Poetry [2]. Moreover,
it also has a special section with CI recommendations [3]. In this
section, it strongly suggests to install Poetry via `pipx`, instead of
the installer script that you download from the Internet.

Follow Poetry's suggestion to install it via `pipx` in CI environments,
with one minor change. Do not use `pipx ensurepath`, as that will
affect the `.bashrc` of the dev environment, which at some point in the
future may be mounted by the dev. Instead, set a PATH environment
variable that includes `~/.local/bin`.

[1]: https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/issues/351
[2]: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation
[3]: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#ci-recommendations

Fixes #351
2023-03-08 17:36:42 +02:00
.circleci ci: Install Poetry via APT on Debian Bookworm 2023-03-08 17:23:06 +02:00
.github/workflows Build Windows MSI/.exe in GitHub actions 2023-02-23 09:12:06 +00:00
assets Update README screenshots for 0.4.0 release 2022-12-02 11:26:21 +00:00
container Container: ignore non-progress pdftoppm output 2023-02-21 19:05:21 +00:00
dangerzone Fix "Choose..." dialog not opening on Qt6 2023-03-01 12:49:46 +00:00
dev_scripts dev_scripts: Install Poetry via pipx 2023-03-08 17:36:42 +02:00
install Fix Windows build for PySide6 (illegal file names) 2023-02-23 09:12:02 +00:00
share Add dummy isolation provider to CLI 2023-01-25 14:51:50 +00:00
tests Minor corrections in test code 2023-02-17 01:15:08 +02:00
.gitignore migrate to pytest & test_docs -> tests/test_docs 2022-09-13 13:07:58 +01:00
BUILD.md Windows build: link to adding Wix to PATH 2023-02-23 09:12:04 +00:00
CHANGELOG.md Changelog: add exit confirmation feature 2022-12-01 15:24:19 +00:00
INSTALL.md ci: Remove Fedora 35 support 2023-01-16 18:48:09 +02:00
LICENSE Remove useless files from dangerzone-converter, and move files out of separate scripts directory 2021-11-24 12:47:39 -08:00
Makefile Make 'make test' use the Python interpreter 2023-01-25 16:36:31 +00:00
poetry.lock Use PySide6 in our dev environments 2023-02-07 18:52:09 +02:00
pyproject.toml Use PySide6 in our dev environments 2023-02-07 18:52:09 +02:00
README.md README: make screenshots smaller and side-by-side 2022-12-07 10:51:04 +00:00
RELEASE.md Merge pull request #280 from freedomofpress/prepare-0.4.0 2022-12-01 16:50:56 -08:00
setup-windows.py Windows: fix "Open with" dialog showing dz description 2023-01-16 11:38:08 +00:00
setup.py Add missing Dangerzone module in setup.py 2023-02-07 20:34:24 +02:00
stdeb.cfg ci: Fix failing build-debian-bookworm step 2022-12-15 18:30:19 +02:00

Dangerzone

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

Settings Converting

Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don't know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside of a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn't already one), and then converts the PDF into raw pixel data: a huge list of RGB color values for each page. Then, in a separate sandbox, Dangerzone takes this pixel data and converts it back into a PDF.

Read more about Dangerzone in the blog post Dangerzone: Working With Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked.

Getting started

You can also install Dangerzone for Mac using Homebrew: brew install --cask dangerzone

Some features

  • Sandboxes don't have network access, so if a malicious document can compromise one, it can't phone home
  • Dangerzone can optionally OCR the safe PDFs it creates, so it will have a text layer again
  • Dangerzone compresses the safe PDF to reduce file size
  • After converting, Dangerzone lets you open the safe PDF in the PDF viewer of your choice, which allows you to open PDFs and office docs in Dangerzone by default so you never accidentally open a dangerous document

Dangerzone can convert these types of document into safe PDFs:

  • PDF (.pdf)
  • Microsoft Word (.docx, .doc)
  • Microsoft Excel (.xlsx, .xls)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt)
  • ODF Text (.odt)
  • ODF Spreadsheet (.ods)
  • ODF Presentation (.odp)
  • ODF Graphics (.odg)
  • Jpeg (.jpg, .jpeg)
  • GIF (.gif)
  • PNG (.png)

Dangerzone was inspired by Qubes trusted PDF, but it works in non-Qubes operating systems. It uses containers as sandboxes instead of virtual machines (using Docker for macOS, Windows, and Debian/Ubuntu, and podman for Fedora).

Set up a development environment by following these instructions.