Re: Determining key permission bits

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 12/20/13 08:51, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> FWIW, ls -l does give some hint -- keys with fewer permissions seem to
> be smaller.

Yes, this is generally correct, although there can be confounding factors -- if
a key file is passphrase-protected then it will be larger than a file with the
same keys but no encryption.

> Also, it would be nice if there was a way to revoke or rotate the delete key.

Hmm, interesting idea.  I wonder what credentials should be used to authorize
a key-rotation request...

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