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2 | Expired Keys Bug | ||
3 | ================ | ||
4 | Currently, kiki does not convey the information that a key has expired. | ||
5 | Suggest appending [Expired] to the end of the line. | ||
6 | |||
7 | Q. What should happen if a master key expires but the subkey is still valid? | ||
8 | Probably treat the subkey as if expired as well. OR at the very least remove | ||
9 | the back arrows. | ||
10 | |||
11 | |||
12 | Nest level (network level) on user id | ||
13 | ====================================== | ||
14 | Next to the word `signed', but before the colon, perhaps a number in parenthesis | ||
15 | should be placed (0) indicates a signature of the working key, (1) implies it is | ||
16 | signed by a key the working key signed. (2) it is signed by a key that was signed | ||
17 | by a key that the working key has signed. | ||
18 | |||
19 | Some symbol could be used for signatures that are completely outside of the web, | ||
20 | (oo) perhaps. Where oo suggests the infinity symbol. It might also mean signatures | ||
21 | greater than some predefined nest-level for efficiency reasons, so nest levels | ||
22 | greater than say 5, for example, are treated as (oo). | ||
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24 | |||
25 | Orphaned subkeys | ||
26 | ================ | ||
27 | it is probably useful to track and convey information about keys that are not under | ||
28 | the authority of any known master key. It is possible to treat such keys as masters | ||
29 | or to treat them as subkeys, but as it is conventional that masters have uids and | ||
30 | subkeys have usage tags, it may be preferable to treat an ssh key as a sub key. | ||
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32 | Another possibility is to treat them as both a master and a sub key, making duplicate | ||
33 | entries in the keyring for the key. If this is done, then of course, we can treat them | ||
34 | as if they are cross certified (<->). | ||
35 | |||
36 | Whatever policy is adopted, it should keep in mind that the user may wish later on | ||
37 | to reclassify said keys under a master, or to have them automatically reclassified | ||
38 | when a master is imported which has a subkey which matches the orphan. | ||
39 | |||
40 | Perhaps kiki should have the concept of a ghost master, where a user id is given, but | ||
41 | there is no private, nor public key. Then later on if a master key is imported with the | ||
42 | exact same user id, and it is signed by the working key, then all of the subkeys that are | ||
43 | currently under the ghost can hop over to the new master. Back signatures will only show | ||
44 | if they were also imported. | ||
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46 | User Interface | ||
47 | ============== | ||
48 | Yet Another UI Proposal | ||
49 | *As stated in the kiki.txt proposal, kiki should have top level commands and then | ||
50 | options under those commands. | ||
51 | |||
52 | *Top level commands: show, sync-secret, import-public, export-public.. | ||
53 | |||
54 | - The idea of this proposal is to keep the KEYSPEC notation, SPEC=file{SHELL_CMD} | ||
55 | but to use it across the board, on import as well as sync, and export. | ||
56 | |||
57 | - The difference between import and sync is merely whether the file being | ||
58 | imported is also updated or not. Export using a similar interface again | ||
59 | but only writing to the specified files, possibly appending, but never | ||
60 | adding information to the gpg keyrings. | ||
61 | |||
62 | - At some point the interface can be expanded with analogous sync-public and | ||
63 | import-secret, etc... there is a clear suggested place to put any new | ||
64 | functionality. | ||
65 | |||
66 | - Since import commands are not allowed to write to files, it makes little sense | ||
67 | to allow them to be created with SHELL_CMD. If that is what the user intends, | ||
68 | he can simply run SHELL_CMD manually and then run kiki using only the SPEC=file. | ||
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