That's something I was always wondering about. I'm starting to understand.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:34 PM, C H Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Any chance of Plan 9's factotum learning how to speak infauth?
>
> that was done as a GSoC project, but i then made the mistake
> of trying to include it as part of a much larger change on
> the Inferno side. it wasn't a silly mistake: factotum doesn't
> support the key structure required for public keys and signatures,
> so something more was needed. i also wanted to extend Inferno's
> authentication scheme. that in turn is requiring a big (ie, visible)
> change in a few old Inferno modules and commands.
>
> still, for your purposes the temporary hack of stashing the
> existing certificate data in hex would be fine.
> i'll send you some changes for you to try.
>
>
