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

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:04:09 -0600, Shaun Jackman 
<address@hidden> said:

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

Hmm, it seems that the plus symbol is allowed in a bleeding edge
monotone:

: ; monotone genkey address@hidden
monotone: generating key-pair 'address@hidden'
enter passphrase for key ID address@hidden: 
confirm passphrase for key ID address@hidden: 
monotone: storing key-pair 'address@hidden' in /home/levitte/.monotone/keys/

Actually, considering it says 13 (!) UTF-8 characters were incorrect,
I doubt the plus symbol had anything to do with it.

Cheers,
Richard

sjackman> > From: J C Lawrence <address@hidden>
sjackman> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
sjackman> > Subject: monotone: genkey fails on plus addresses
sjackman> > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:07:14 -0700
sjackman> > Package: monotone
sjackman> > Version: 0.20-1
sjackman> > Severity: normal
sjackman> >
sjackman> > $ monotone --db=./monotone.db genkey "address@hidden"
sjackman> > monotone: misuse: error converting 13 UTF-8 bytes to IDNA ACE: 
non-LDH characte
sjackman> > rs
sjackman> 
sjackman> > From: Tomas Fasth <address@hidden>
sjackman> > To: J C Lawrence <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
sjackman> >  address@hidden
sjackman> > Subject: Re: Bug#319116: monotone: genkey fails on plus addresses
sjackman> > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:50:28 +0200
sjackman> >
sjackman> > Hello J C,
sjackman> >
sjackman> > Apperently you are not allowed to use certain characters, in your
sjackman> > case '+', as key id in monotone. IDNA stands for "Internationalizing
sjackman> > Domain Names in Applications" and is defined in RFC 3490. ACE stands
sjackman> > for "ASCII Compatible Encoding" and LDH is an abbreviation for
sjackman> > "letters, digits, hyphen". For some reason the key id is restricted
sjackman> > to this definition, and '+' is therefore not a valid character in a
sjackman> > key id. If you wish, you can contact the upstream authors and ask
sjackman> > them to make this less restrictive.
sjackman> >
sjackman> > Regards
sjackman> > Tomas Fasth <address@hidden>

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