Why?

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:11:57PM +0200, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote:
> * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-05-19 20:04:14]:
> 
> > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:38:35PM +0200, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> > > 
> > > I like the initial post but as Ian say it is overkill at least for
> > > now. The problem is, how hard will it be to update it later to a
> > > better solution if needed?
> > > 
> > > As far as I can see Matthew's proposal cover any possible case,
> > > including the one Ian argument for being the most likely which is
> > > probably is too, but it's not 95% of all cases.
> > 
> > I'd prefer not to implement something that was way too simple, and have
> > to complicate things later by keeping back-compatibility.
> 
> I don't think that having two kinds of revocation keys would hurt.
> 
> I do think we need some kind of revocable USK soon, ... a simple thing:
> no trustees nor "new key". Just something to advertise that the key has
> been blown and that the user has to look for a new one by "other means".
> 
> > 
> > But I don't see that it's a really urgent problem anyway; update from
> > the web site does work, this is more of a strategic question. Certainly
> > good to have for 0.7.0, but it's not necessary to have it for next week.
> > Not that I'm saying it would take a week to implement. But I don't see
> > any reason to implement something which is below the minimum which would
> > be necessary to be used by FPI for auto-updating and a project freesite.



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