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[Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <
nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, krishnan parthasarathi <
> krishnan.parthasarathi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <
>> nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> 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'.
>>
> True. Thanks for reminding me about sharing. I had temporarily thrown it
> out of my mind.
>

Before this is lost in a pile of emails, Aditya - can you copy this over to
the Wiki?


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>> cheers,
>> krishnan
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Karthik
>



-- 
Karthik