Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: ~/.monotone/keys , privkey packets

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:01 +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:45:07 -0500, Timothy 
> Brownawell <address@hidden> said:
> 
> tbrownaw> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:39 -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> tbrownaw> > I'm trying to implement ~/.monotone/keys/ . Since a
> tbrownaw> > privkey without its pubkey isn't very useful, I want to
> tbrownaw> > make it store key pairs, not lone privkeys. In order for
> tbrownaw> > this to work, monotone would have to not be able to input
> tbrownaw> > a private key without its pubkey.
> 
> If you look in commands.cc, you will see that the privkey command
> writes both the private and public key to the file.  You can even just
> try the 'monotone privkey' command and look at the output (it's
> ASCII).

Yes, but they're still seperate packets. Which kinda complicates things
if the storage doesn't accept a privkey without its pubkey.

> tbrownaw> ...Of course, the only time the pubkey needs to be retrieved
> tbrownaw> from the key store is when we sign something, and as msh
> 
> Incorrect.  You use the *private* key to sign things, and the other's
> public key to *verify* a signature.  This means that we need to be
> able to extract the public key to publish it, one way or another.

...and really, anyone who's been given they private key should be able
to do that. Not just whoever generated it. So back to the keypair
packets idea unless we want to (maybe) need a password for 'mtn pubkey',
I guess...

Tim