On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:10:49PM -0500, Peter Memishian wrote:
> 
>  > Going back to what this thread was about: what characters to allow in 
>  > secobj names?
>  > 
>  > 1. Are we allowing just alphanumeric and '_' for the secure object 
>  > names? What about '-' and '.' which are already used explicitly by NWAM?
> 
> I think it's OK to allow those if it'd be useful to NWAM.
> 
>  > 2. What's the plan of action for secobj names that will be invalidated 
>  > by the implementation of (1)?
> 
> It's only really an issue for upgrade, right?  If the user has to re-input
> their key in the case where their ESSID used characters that are invalid
> for a secobj, that doesn't seem so bad, at least based on where we are
> with Indiana these days.

How about a free-form annotation for secobjs such that the old name
becomes the annotation and the new name is randomly generated (OK, or a
simple transformation of the old name)?  Then NWAM could still match
secobjs by checking the annotation.

Nico
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