Re: ssh key

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Aug 10, 2004, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi -
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:14:16PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> [...]  I'm just thinking it might be reasonable to have, as
>> part of the sign-up procedure, a gpg pubkey registration, and demand
>> such requests to be signed with the corresponding privkey.

> But how would that solve the typical problem that appears here, which
> is that people lose their old ssh private keys (due to change of hardware
> or fatfingering rm or whatever)?  Files in $HOME/.gnupg are not much more
> likely to survive than $HOME/.ssh.

Well...  You're supposed to keep the GPG key revocation certificate in
permanent storage, and you might as well have the GPG private key
itself saved somewhere.  Sure it's not bullet-proof, and we may have
to handle exceptions, but those would not be the rule.

In this one case, it was not about a lost key, it was about requesting
an additional key.

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