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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_92__S3.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_92__S3.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c3f275a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_92__S3.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Amazon S3 was the second most popular choice in the +[[polls/prioritizing_special_remotes]] poll, and since I'm not sure how +I want to support phone/mp3 players, I did it first. + +So I added a configurator today to easily set up an Amazon S3 repository. +That was straightforward and didn't take long since git-annex already +supported S3. + +The hard part, of course, is key distribution. Since the webapp so far +can only configure the shared encryption method, and not fullblown gpg keys, +I didn't feel it would be secure to store the S3 keys in the git repository. +Anyone with access to that git repo would have full access to S3 ... just not +acceptable. Instead, the webapp stores the keys in a 600 mode file locally, +and they're not distributed at all. + +When the same S3 repository is enabled on another computer, it prompts for +keys then too. I did add a hint about using the IAM Management Console in +this case -- it should be possible to set up users in IAM who can only +access a single bucket, although I have not tried to set that up. + +--- + +Also, more work on the standalone OSX app. diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/polls/prioritizing_special_remotes.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/polls/prioritizing_special_remotes.mdwn index 478453065..4ecee8e36 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/polls/prioritizing_special_remotes.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/polls/prioritizing_special_remotes.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ locally paired systems, and remote servers with rsync. Help me prioritize my work: What special remote would you most like to use with the git-annex assistant? -[[!poll open=yes 14 "Amazon S3" 8 "Amazon Glacier" 6 "Box.com" 44 "My phone (or MP3 player)" 5 "Tahoe-LAFS" 3 "OpenStack SWIFT" 12 "Google Drive"]] +[[!poll open=yes 14 "Amazon S3 (done)" 8 "Amazon Glacier" 6 "Box.com" 44 "My phone (or MP3 player)" 5 "Tahoe-LAFS" 3 "OpenStack SWIFT" 12 "Google Drive"]] This poll is ordered with the options I consider easiest to build listed first. Mostly because git-annex already supports them and they |