Re: [Monotone-devel] Are public keys transmitted with netsync?

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 14:34 +0000, Boris wrote:
> In the documentation Abe and Beth have to send their public keys to Jim. But 
> there is no exchange of public keys between Abe and Beth. They both don't 
> get Jim's public key either. I assume that once you connect to a monotone 
> server the public keys of that server are automatically transmitted to your 
> local montone database? Or are public keys really synchronized (eventually 
> new public keys in the local database of a developer are sent to the server, 
> too)?

Any public keys needed to verify particular certs will be sent (if the
receiving side doesn't already have them) when those certs are sent.
Additionally, the key that the server used to identify itself will be
sent if the client doesn't already have it.

-- 
Timothy

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