Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone.ca can now be used as a server

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:04:55 -0700, Graydon Hoare 
<address@hidden> said:

graydon> Richard Levitte wrote:
graydon> 
graydon> > Actually, the reason that key IDs must be unique is that
graydon> > the table that stores them is indexed by, you guessed it,
graydon> > unique key IDs.  To this day, I still can't understand that
graydon> > decision, it has created more problems than it has solved,
graydon> > as far as I can see.  The key table SHOULD (in my opinion)
graydon> > be indexed by key fingerprint or something like that.  But
graydon> > then, I come from the PKI world, where this is common
graydon> > sense...
graydon> 
graydon> It's a bug. A very old bug I have deferred fixing for ... 4
graydon> years.  Something else always took priority.

Aha!  *cracks knuckles*  Soooo, if someone would listen to you saying
"bug", probably for the umpteenth time, and get the idea of actually
doing something about it, you wouldn't mind, would you?

graydon> I really should have started with SPKI.

Hmm...  ok, so reading up on SPKI would be a good idea, just to figure
out if it's a good option or not...

Cheers,
Richard (who thinks it's time to actually jot down a personal TODO
list for monotone...)

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