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[krishnan parthasarathi <krishnan.parthasarathi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <
nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> used to recover the RSA key pair on the client machine (should be
> preferred).
>
>>
>>
>> This method avoids the loss and regeneration of RSA keys, and makes it
>> easy to add a new machine to an account on the server. Thoughts?
>>
> I would like to keep separate keys for separate machines. If we follow the
> SpiderOak model, each client (for the same user) has a unique identity and
> maintains its own synced folders.
>


> Thus maintaining a separate key is not an issue and somewhat feels like a
> cleaner separation to me (gut feeling).
>

If each client installation for the same user is going to have different RSA
keypair then sharing files becomes a problem. We are planning to use the RSA
public key of the 'sharee' to sign/encrypt the AES key of the file shared by
the 'sharer'.

cheers,
krishnan