On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 17:50 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I actually like keyctl requiring 'trusted:' or 'user:'. Forcing the
> > user to indicate which type of key they want, is actually good - no
> > misunderstandings.
>
> You still need to prefix the description of a user-defined key so that you
> don't collide with other people who're also using user-defined keys for
> random things.
ok
> > Another benefit, would be allowing 'keyctl update' to update the key
> > description, not the key type.
>
> You mean you want to change the description on a key?
>
> David
No, this just updates the name of the key used to encrypt/decrypt the
encrypted key. For example, the encrypted key evm-key is initially
encrypted/decrypted using 'kmk-trusted'. After the update, it is
encrypted/decrypted with 'kmk'. Both now are trusted keys.
$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
-3 --alswrv 500 500 keyring: _ses
117908125 --alswrv 500 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.500
501967942 --alswrv 500 500 \_ trusted: kmk-trusted
317523177 --alswrv 500 500 \_ encrypted: evm-key
666437381 --alswrv 500 500 \_ trusted: kmk
$ keyctl print 317523177
trusted:kmk-trusted 32 ca0ebb83594f14781460 ...
$ keyctl update 317523177 "update trusted:kmk"
$ keyctl print 317523177
trusted:kmk 32 ca0ebb83594f1478146 ....
Mimi
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