[Monotone-devel] key management

[Stephen Leake]

Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 05.08.10 15:40, schrieb Stephen Leake:
>> For
>> example, privkey, pubkey, read are apparently deprecated now.
>
> I
> wouldn't go so far to deprecate privkey, pubkey and read though - these
> are still used to backup / export / import keys or how do you want to
> handle these otherwise?

Ok. From the discussion around 'automate put_pub_key' I got the
impression 'mtn read <key>' was deprecated. I guess not.

> One might deprecate the reader functionality packets other than keys
> though.

The top level code in cmd_packet.cc makes no distinction between key and
other packets. But we could delete the non-key operations from packet.hh
packet_consumer.

There is already an 'automate read_packets' command!

So I think 'automate put_pub_key" is already implemented.

Unless the point was to have some other format for the input. Bug 30345
doesn't say what format is expected. ASCII-armored was mentioned in
chat, but I'm not sure that's a format spec?

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