Re: [Monotone-devel] One person in many places

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:29:24PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:24:02AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> > In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:27 -0700, Shaun 
> > Jackman <address@hidden> said:
> > 
> > sjackman> May I suggest that 'monotone privkey' export both the
> > sjackman> private key *and* the public key by default. Or, if you want
> > sjackman> to leave the semantics of privkey as is, create a new
> > sjackman> command, perhaps 'monotone key', that exports both the
> > sjackman> public key and the private key.
> > 
> > I *like* the last suggestion ('monotone key').  If noone minds, it'll
> > get implemented later tonight (Boston time).
> 
> Sure, no objections here.  It should be obsoleted once privkeys move
> outside of the database, by "just grab your key out of
> ~/.monotone/keys", but who knows when that will get done :-).

Actually, on second thought, I kind of like the idea of the "privkey"
packet always containing the pubkey as well, since a privkey alone is
pretty useless.  This would still make sense in the brave future
~/.monotone/keys/ world too...

-- Nathaniel

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