Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: key trust

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:10:54 +0100, Bruce Stephens 
<address@hidden> said:

monotone> But if your certificate has all those decorations then it's
monotone> probably not so usable for other purposes, so I'd guess that
monotone> would diminish the "single signon" type argument for using
monotone> X.509?

Really?  Why?

monotone> I suspect that if monotone had an ssh-agent type system
monotone> (maybe even one that actually used ssh-agent, whether or not
monotone> it used ssh keys), then a lot of the irritation with using
monotone> monotone-specific keys would go?

Hmm, I think I recall Nathaniel talking about a monotone-agent a while
ago.  Or was that Graydon?

monotone> > But you'll have to wait until that RFC is implemented in
monotone> > OpenSSL :-).
monotone> 
monotone> OK, not for a couple of weeks, then?

Yeah, right...

Cheers,
Richard

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