Re: [Monotone-devel] Keystore usability -- passphraseless keys, etc.

[Daniel Carosone]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 04:47:15PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Proposed solution: stick extra tags on the end of files we write to
> the keystore.  
> [..]
> like <keyid>-<EXTRASTUFF>, where <EXTRASTUFF> is either "PRIVATE" or
> "PRIVATE,NO-PASSPHRASE", so people are always clear on what exactly

I like the idea, in general. 

At least one concern: what happens when a user changes from/to a
NO-PASSPHRASE key?  We risk leaving a NOPASSPHRASE copy lying around
after they expressed an intention to protect their key, or we risk
confusion by reading two different files with the same private key.

Perhaps it's more useful to keep the filenames the same as now, but
display this extra information in "ls keys".  Or do both?

--
Dan.

pgpmjgvfO_j8x.pgp
Description: PGP signature