Security

Connect to a remote server over SSH to transfer files via SCP, setup a secure tunnel, or run a command or script on the host while streaming stdout and stderr directly to the client.

Sobriety checkpoints are designed to help ensure personal and public safety. Methods are provided to run “sobriety” checks on your system to ensure your computing environment is as safe as possible from the perspectives of confidentiality and integrity.

Encryption wrappers, using low-level support from sodium and openssl. cyphr tries to smooth over some pain points when using encryption within applications and data analysis by wrapping around differences in function names and arguments in different encryption providing packages. It also provides high-level wrappers for input/output functions for seamlessly adding encryption to existing analyses.

Check an R package for potential security risks and violations via static code analysis.

The mitmproxy https://mitmproxy.org/ project provides tools to intercept, modify and/or introspect network traffic. Methods are provided to download, install, configure and launch mitmproxy plus introspect and validate network captures.

Intuit package harm.

Keybase <keybase.io> is a directory of people and public keys and provides methods for obtaining public keys, validating users and exchanging files and/or messages in a secure fashion. Tools are provided to search for and retrieve information about Keybase users, retrieve and import user public keys and list and/or download files. There’s also a thin but useful R wrapper around many of they keybase command-line utility functions.

Signing and verification of R packages.