[Monotone-devel] Re: Debian Bugs information: logs for Bug#319116

[Shaun Jackman]

The following bug submitted by a Debian user is requesting that the
plus symbol ('+') be added as a a legal key ID character. I'd like to
see the key ID accept arbitrary text, but in particular I'd like to
see space, left angle bracket, and right angle bracket as legal
characters to support email addresses including a full name, such as
Shaun Jackman <address@hidden>.

Cheers,
Shaun

> From: J C Lawrence <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: monotone: genkey fails on plus addresses
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:07:14 -0700
> Package: monotone
> Version: 0.20-1
> Severity: normal
>
> $ monotone --db=./monotone.db genkey "address@hidden"
> monotone: misuse: error converting 13 UTF-8 bytes to IDNA ACE: non-LDH 
> characte
> rs

> From: Tomas Fasth <address@hidden>
> To: J C Lawrence <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
>  address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Bug#319116: monotone: genkey fails on plus addresses
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:50:28 +0200
>
> Hello J C,
>
> Apperently you are not allowed to use certain characters, in your
> case '+', as key id in monotone. IDNA stands for "Internationalizing
> Domain Names in Applications" and is defined in RFC 3490. ACE stands
> for "ASCII Compatible Encoding" and LDH is an abbreviation for
> "letters, digits, hyphen". For some reason the key id is restricted
> to this definition, and '+' is therefore not a valid character in a
> key id. If you wish, you can contact the upstream authors and ask
> them to make this less restrictive.
>
> Regards
> Tomas Fasth <address@hidden>