Subject: Re: bug#64838: [PATCH] home: Add parcimonie service.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:32:23 +0200

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/home/services/gnupg.scm (home-parcimonie-service-type,
> home-parcimonie-configuration): New variables.
> * doc/guix.texi (GNU Privacy Guard): Document it.

Very nice!

> +The @code{parcimonie} service runs a daemon that slowly refreshes a GnuPG
> +public key from a keyserver.  Its refreshes one key at a time; between every
                                 ^
“It”

> +key update parcimonie sleeps a random amount of time, long enough for the
> +previously used Tor circuit to expire.  This process is meant to make it hard
> +for an attacker to correlate the multiple performed key update operations.

Maybe: “to correlate the multiple key updates.”

> +As an example, here is how you would configure @code{parcimonie} to refresh the
> +keys in your GnuPG keyring, as well as those keyrings created by Guix, such as
> +when running @code{guix import}:
> +
> +@lisp
> +(service home-parcimonie-service-type
> +         (home-parcimonie-configuration
> +           (refresh-guix-keyrings? #t)))
> +@end lisp

Maybe add: “This assumes that the Tor anonymous routing daemon is
already running on your system.  On Guix System, this can be achieved by
setting up @code{tor-service-type} (@pxref{Networking Services,
@code{tor-service-type}}).”

Apart from these minor nits, LGTM!

Thanks,
Ludo’.