Re: Publickey subsystem draft

[Dan O'Reilly <dano%process.com@localhost>]

Why not use the methodology used by SSH-KEYGEN?  It's simple to implement
and would be in keeping with that used on the server already.

At 12:27 PM 9/5/2003, Richard Whalen wrote:
> I am looking into implementing the Public-Key Subsystem and I've come across
> a bit of a problem that I need to solve before I can continue.
>
> Our implementation is built upon the implementation from SSH.COM.  In this
> implementation there is a file that contains a list of the files that
> contain the keys, with one key per file.
>
> Implementing the "list" operation is no problem: read the file that contains
> the list of key files and then send the information from each key file.
>
> The hard part comes with the "add" and "remove" operations.  Since each key
> is stored in a separate file, there needs to be a name for this file.  The
> current draft does not contain a "name" for a key that could be used to
> specify the file that the key is stored in.
>
> ----------------------
> Richard Whalen
> Process Software
> 508-879-6994x261

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