[Monotone-devel] Re: Rosterify and certificate keys

[Bruce Stephens]

address@hidden writes:

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> While it's still not clear to me why everything needs to be re-signed, I 
> am resigned to the new reality.

Because revisions have changed format (you can see using "monotone
automate get_revision" and "mtn automate get_revision" on old and new
databases), so the sha1 of the text of each revision must change.  So
certs all have to change, too, and thus they need to be signed again.

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