Introduction

Practical Guides to Using Cauliflower Vest

The following wikis will attempt to guide you to through setup, testing, configuration, and deploying Cauliflower Vest to your clients. Please follow them in this order:

1. AdminSetup - setup your workstation, configure, build and deploy a client and server
2. Testing - run tests to make sure your workstation environment is in order
3. Configuration - make site specific configuration choices
4. User administration - adding/configuring admin, support, and normal user accounts and access behavior
5. PackagingDeployableClient - make a .dmg that you can deploy to your clients
6. KeyRecovery - recover a stored key

Background Info on Cauliflower Vest

The following wikis provide more background information on how Cauliflower Vest functions:

1. Workflow - overview of the steps the client takes to escrow a recovery key
2. Client Beneath the Surface - how the client functions
3. Server Beneath the Surface - how the server functions

Adapting Cauliflower Vest

The following wikis provide additional information suitable for those wishing to adapt our stock Cauliflower Vest offering into some other form:

1. ServerKeys - consider security and storage of the keys used to encrypt escrowed recovery keys
2. DIYServer - how one might implement their own Cauliflower Vest-compatible server