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Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction |
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Thu, 7 Sep 2006 00:42:36 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 |
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:07:43AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:06:15 +0200 (CEST),
> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> said:
>
> richard> I still don't understand why keys would be stored by name. In the
> richard> rest of the security community, keys are identified by a form of
> hash,
> richard> or a fingerprint if you will. There is of course the usual risk that
> richard> you can get two keys with the same hash (fingerprint), but since a
> key
> richard> has certain properties and a structure that can't be altered without
> richard> invalidating it, the risk is minimal, so in essense, you can
> richard> practically say that there's a 1:1 mapping between keys and their
> richard> fingerprint.
>
> Oh, and I'm not saying that *users* should have to identify keys by
> key id, just the software itself.
User names are exactly the ones I'm talking about :-).
It's important that a community has a shared vocabulary for
referencing objects. I'll suppress my impulse to go off on a long
digression about the relation between this goal and pet names systems,
SPKI, blah blah blah, but basically the point is that no-one is going
to use key hashes to see who committed that last change, and the group
has to agree on these names so they can talk to each other.
-- Nathaniel
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- [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Daniel Carosone, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Justin Patrin, 2006/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/09/08
Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Thomas Keller, 2006/09/07