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bug #12897: Manual: Might want to discuss crypto in the tutorial

Submitted by:  Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith>
Submitted on:  Thu 28 Apr 2005 11:34:30 PM UTC  
 
Severity: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: Wont FixPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed

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Sat 30 Apr 2005 05:45:14 AM UTC, comment #1:

I have added a note about digital signatures to the introductory blurb (arx.2.2,99), but I want to keep it out of the tutorial. I may be a paranoid nut-job, but I realize that most consumers of SCM's are not. So it would just be a distraction.

Walter Landry <landry>
Project Administrator
Thu 28 Apr 2005 11:34:30 PM UTC, original submission:

I think the most basic crypto features should probably be described very early in the manual. Just a paragraph or so.

If nothing else, encourage users who value security to establish their keypair before creating their archive. Pretty much everything just happens, so they don't really need to know anything else. Then the full crypto section at the end can fill in details for the nosey (or for people who suddenly see a crytpto error and want to know what happened).

Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith>
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