versioning

Versioning

This article discuss major changes in the core functionality. Each significant change in the format or core functionality shall follow bump major version as well. Major versions will be as follows in early stages of development: alpha, beta, gamma, etc. and continue as v1, v2, etc. after the official release.

Throughout this article, this version will be referenced as "format version alpha".

Beta (0.2.0)

[unreleased]

Added administrator and trust control. More information is available in the section Admin.

Trust control prevents attacks in which the attacker modifies the database by, for example, adding a blank new users, which someone will share a secret to, following to its leakage.

When users unlocks the database, they automatically verify themselves using their password, their administrator using their digital signature, and determine which user they would trust or not based on administrator's signature.

This version is not backward compatible to the version alpha.

Alpha (0.1.0)

Initial version, consisting only Users and Entries first place entities. This format provides minimal multi-user encryption of the entries and basic user management.

The format version alpha does not implement trust system, meaning it's not. secure enough against fake users. This was improved in the version beta with introduction of Admin.