Re: [Dibs-discussion] user experience installing

[Emin M. <em...@al...>]

"Eric S. Johansson" <es...@in...> writes:

> by almost silently, I mean that it indicated that it did not import
> only by saying that count of keys imported was 0.  There was no other
> warning that the key import process failed.  So if I had not been
> paying attention I would have thought that the key had been imported
> one in reality it hadn't been.

I suspect that the key was already imported so the key import didn't
fail, it just didn't change anything.

> good point.  And by the way, I apologize for missed speech recognition
> errors.  Sometimes inverts the meaning of my sentences or otherwise
> alters them in ways designed to maximize mischief or confusion.

No problem.

> according to the instructions you give one could come away with the
> impression that if you have multiple machines, the e-mail address you
> use for key generation should be all the same address, in my case
> esj...@ha....  When in reality, you do not need even to have
> valid addresses in the keys, just unique ones hence my schema
> described earlier.

OK, I'll mention this point in the next set of docs.

> can you not specify different key rings?  It seems to me it would be
> basic functionality but again... assuming you can specify key rings,
> it should be relatively simple to create dibs specific key rings to
> prevent collision with user generated keyrings

I don't know how to do this.  I think the GPG philosophy is that keys
should be unique.

> I think with key naming, I should be all set.  I think that assuming
> that the asymmetrical key "e-mail address" really isn't an e-mail
> address but just an identifier with an @ in the middle works best.

Yes.

-Emin