It does answer my quesetion, yes :) Wasn't sure if there was some hashing magic going on (though I don't know how) that separated the two :P Am I to presume all linking is done server-side - i.e. the key itself doesn't directly contain any information about the account it's tied to?
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 17:01 ACST, Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote: On 05/22/17 20:33, Stephen wrote: > Just a quick/simple question (hopefully)! Given a keyfile, can the > account be determined from said keyfile (either by ourselves, or > Colin)? Or is the account only used to set up + authorise that key > file to store on the service, using a one-way only kind of identifier? > > Just curious if a keyfile can be used to identify an account, or not > :) I haven't figured out how to bill people for their machines' usage without knowing which account each machine belongs to. Does that answer your question? ;-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
