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Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL
From: |
Timothy Brownawell |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:29:27 +0000 |
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:57 +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert White wrote:
> > Try things like wanting to be able to revoke/destroy one key when the
> > contract is over etc.
>
> I fail to see how that's even possible in a distributed environment. The
> only thing one single party can do is distrust a key. There's no way to
> make sure the other party "destroys" its key - and won't have a backup
> somewhere.
It's entirely possible to destroy the private half, since only one
person should ever have that. And being sure in this case sounds more
like a matter of contracts rather than technology. Something can be
useful even when technology can't guarantee it.
(This also actually sounds *almost* reasonable -- very slightly less
risk of someone stealing the contractor's computer (and private keys)
and signing garbage that they can try to sneak into your source
repositories.)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Brian May, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Brian May, 2008/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Daniel Carrera, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Ethan Blanton, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL,
Timothy Brownawell <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/20
Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Timothy Brownawell, 2008/10/19
Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/19
Re: [Monotone-devel] WARNING: ~/.monotone/keys CONSIDERED HARMFUL, Thomas Keller, 2008/10/20