Re: [Monotone-devel] private key needed for sync?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:19:49PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:53:20PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Brian Campbell wrote:
> > > You need to have a key in the server so the client can make
> > > sure it's connecting to the right server. Otherwise, someone
> > > could set up a bogus server so when you sync to it, all of
> > > your private code is sent to the malicious server.
> > 
> > How do you generate such a default signing key?
> > The tutorial/manual says something like
> >   monotone --db=~/database.db genkey address@hidden
> > 
> > But this generates a key for a specific person, somebody.
> > How does one generate the default signing key for the server itself?
> 
> You just pick something.  The off.net server uses "address@hidden";
> you can use whatever you like.  An email address that will get to the
> server administrator might be good ("address@hidden"?).
> Key names are just arbitrary strings (with some overly draconian rules
> about what characters are allowed -- should fix this at some point),
> and the use of email addresses is just a convention.

So if I generate any key in a database, that key becomes the default?
And adding a key with
         monotone ... read <...
doesn't make a default key?

-- hendrik