On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:38:41PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 07:03:27PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote: > > I like this scheme. It's not broken, it's not ridiculous, it's not > > even going to break backward compatibility. Let's just do it this > > way. > > My concern is that two distinct types of key are emerging, KSKs, SSKs, > CHKs, and SVKs on one side, which all require specific server-side code, > and then MSKs, and this new keytype which are just client-side > conveniences, rather than real keys (and are converted to one of the > server-side key-types before a freenet node even sees them). > > I am not saying that I think MSKs and other "virtual" key-types are a > bad idea, but I do think that the destinction between server-side and > client-side should be made in the key itself. If not, we risk further > confusion in the future.
Remember, the real designator for what keytype is being used are the two keytype bytes in the key - the TLA that precedes the key in the URI is just identifying the URI so it can be parsed correctly. In this sense "MSKs" are not keytypes at all, they are simply a special purpose URI construction - perhaps we need to change to TLA to make this clear. -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Tue Apr 17 01:41:12 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA03275 for <danello at danky.com>; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:30:36 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B67F580F8; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 07:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from mail1.telia.com (t6o70p14.telia.com [195.67.239.134]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE7958096
