Re: [Tech] FMS (Java) design

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Author: Matthew Toseland
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Subject: Re: [Tech] FMS (Java) design
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gpg: Signature made Tue Mar 4 18:08:06 2008 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:54, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
> Matthew Toseland a écrit :
>
> >> I must have misunderstood something with how SSK works. Do you mean it's
> >> possible for the plugin to insert a new edition without knowledge of
> >> other files in it (FMS files) ? If so, can you explain how ? I'm
> >> interrested.
> >
> > I mean you could use the same SSK pubkey. But maybe you could share more

than
> > that, we really need to minimise polling here..
>
> Agreed. If it is possible to update a key without loosing the files
> listed in the previous edition you don't know about, that is the way to go.


An SSK key consists of a public key and a filename. Some SSKs are also
manifests, this is denoted by a slash.