[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 09/13] paperkey: add short key ID to subject

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Mon Nov 23 09:30:59 CET 2020


> I originally wanted to keep the full fingerprint in, but conceded to 
> your space arguments here and only included the short version.. I also 
> don't really buy the confusion, since unless the user has manually 
> looked inside the key file they don't even know that or how the 
> fingerprint is stored there - in the user-facing parts we only ever show 
> the short key ID. furthermore we already paperkey the pretty-printed 
> version so if the user restores that the checksum of the keyfile is 
> different anyhow.

Don't get that. You delete the fingerprint, so if a user restores that key
he don't have a fingerprint to compare?





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