Re: [Monotone-devel] public keys in keystore?

[Thomas Keller]

Am 18.08.2010 13:26, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> Thomas just pushed a revision with a changelog that says:
> 
>     monotone.texi: we do not store public keys anywhere else than in
>        the database nowadays
> 
> However, the 'automate keys' command says public keys are in the
> keystore (see tests/automate_key_manage for this example):
> 
> mtn automate keys
> stdout:
>             hash [46ec58576f9e4f34a9eede521422aa5fd299dc50]
>       given_name "address@hidden"
>       local_name "address@hidden"
>  public_location "keystore"
> private_location "keystore"
> 
>             hash [ad435b1c15ae7b66a185fbd6d3ab0319c05bb3e2]
>       given_name "address@hidden"
>       local_name "address@hidden"
>  public_location "database" "keystore"
> private_location "keystore"
> 
> Is this output wrong?
> 
> In the keys directory for this test, there are two files:
> 
> address@hidden
> address@hidden
> 
> The first line in these says
> 
> [keypair address@hidden
> [keypair address@hidden
> 
> I assume a 'keypair' is both a public and a private key?

Correct - its concatenated at the "#" sign - the public key data comes
first, then the private key data. The reason why I changed the
monotone.texi paragraph here is that we actually do not save only the
public key data anywhere else than in the database and that we also have
no legit way (nor reason) to only drop the public key part of a keypair.
(If we'd do that, we'd create an invalid key with its own id.)

Thomas.


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