Re: [babel] [Babel-users] key rotation take #2

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Wed, 28 November 2018 12:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [babel] [Babel-users] key rotation take #2
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Dave Taht <dave@taht.net> writes:

> so we invent a new keyword "serial".

So what you're trying to express here is the notion of a "receive-only"
key that is not used for signing outgoing packets, right? If so, I think
it would be better to express that explicitly as a property of the key
config that can be changed on a per-key basis. For one thing, 'serial'
is misleading as it sounds like something that affects the wire format,
and for another with your proposal it becomes difficult to re-instate a
previously retired key (say, if you want to restore connectivity to an
old router that dropped off while you were changing keys).

-Toke