Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Key identities...

[Jack Lloyd]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 06:20:08PM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> 
> If you're going to have the key show up as "address@hidden<1>" and 
> "address@hidden <2>" when there are multiple keys, why not just make the 
> user "genkey address@hidden <2>" when they generate the new key?

How? What is to stop me from running

mtn genkey address@hidden

and the commiting changes with it?

Whatever instance of monotone is generating the key only has some set
of local knowlege and has no idea if when I tell it to generate a new
key with a particular ID if that ID has been assigned before. Unless
someone sets up some sort of nameservice such that duplicates can be
rejected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko's_triangle

> We could make 'keygen' take another, integer, argument, and
> automatically attach it to the end of each key_id.  If not supplied,
> it would default to '1'.  Is that worthwhile?

And what happens if someone decides to lie? Or even just messes up and
puts the wrong integer?

Do not prohibit what you cannot prevent.

-Jack