[Monotone-devel] opportunistic server keys

[Andy Isaacson]

In a completely unrelated thread, Matt Johnston wrote:
> I think I've found the cause, I've pushed a fix to the
> monotone.ucc.asn.au repository [1]. The cause is that tids
[snip]
> [1] server key
> [pubkey address@hidden
> MIGdMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GLADCBhwKBgQC/dRZWvY+2lqLif3ERTeGukh2p404emqou
> 5wCXr9bCHg0CcE532xZGVWvBqI39Q6YJGuDf/U56ZoFYjgliCdxxLayFdyU9SP0cSHz9DSbj
> kPolVF/65hZTWs5t7vC/PqG644Ntzrnkk2/bGXO6mqP4LfUPM4bh0VCBmPYWJtF3UQIBEQ==
> [end]

Is there any particular reason why monotone can't do the ssh trick of
"I'm connecting to a server I've never seen before, simply prompt the
user to see if I should automatically accept its key"?  Out of band key
management is such a pain.

-andy