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From: | Lapo Luchini |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Re: summit flag day? |
Date: | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:06:43 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080303) |
Richard Levitte wrote:
In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:39:32 +0200, Lapo Luchini <address@hidden> said: lapo> Richard Levitte wrote: lapo> > lapo> 2. use principals instead of key names all around lapo> > Uhmmm, what's a principal in this context?lapo> lapo> Something like the hash of the public key material instead of a user-chosen text.That's what I've always wanted, BUT maybe not "all around", only internally. I suspect that the users still want an identity that they can read, recognise and maybe even spell out ;-). I know I'd like that!
Well, except for errors and name-clashes I'd display the user selected name (e-mail, like it is now) anyway ;-)
If you meant something secure and spellable at the same time, there are ways to make hashes more spellable anyway, such as dividing them in 12 bit blocks and using a word out of a dictionary of 4096 carefully chosen words (chosen not to be similar one another).
That's what Windows PGP 5 does (using english words).I did once write come C to do that using an external dictionary containing (in my case) 4096 italian words.
Lapo
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