[Monotone-devel] Re: summit flag day?

[Lapo Luchini]

Richard Levitte wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:39:32 +0200, Lapo Luchini 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> lapo> Richard Levitte wrote:
> lapo> > lapo> 2. use principals instead of key names all around
> lapo> > Uhmmm, what's a principal in this context?
> lapo> 
> lapo> Something like the hash of the public key material instead of a user-chosen text.
>
> That's what I've always wanted, BUT maybe not "all around", only
> internally.  I suspect that the users still want an identity that they
> can read, recognise and maybe even spell out ;-).  I know I'd like
> that!

Well, except for errors and name-clashes I'd display the user selected 
name (e-mail, like it is now) anyway ;-)

If you meant something secure and spellable at the same time, there are 
ways to make hashes more spellable anyway, such as dividing them in 12 
bit blocks and using a word out of a dictionary of 4096 carefully chosen 
words (chosen not to be similar one another).
That's what Windows PGP 5 does (using english words).
I did once write come C to do that using an external dictionary 
containing (in my case) 4096 italian words.

    Lapo