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Meta Issue: Control over private key #565

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martinheidegger opened this issue Oct 20, 2018 · 1 comment
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Meta Issue: Control over private key #565

martinheidegger opened this issue Oct 20, 2018 · 1 comment
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@martinheidegger
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martinheidegger commented Oct 20, 2018

For the scientists we work with, the personal identification is very important.
(Who created the data?)

The DAT desktop automatically uses private-/public-keys to create new DATs. This data can be used to clearly identify the creator of the data.

./app/actions/dat-middleware.js#L137
dat-node/lib/storage.js#L42
dat-storage/index.js#L14
dat-secret-storage/index.js#L6

Nobody notices the automatic creation of that key and its importance!

There are several things that would help to make this clearer to the user:

  1. Show which private key is used for a dat.
  2. Let the user enter a new private key when creating a dat.
  3. Let the user select private keys from a list of private keys when creating a dat.
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dkastl commented Oct 21, 2018

This sounds good! Actually there is quite a lot happening auto-magically, that a normal user even wouldn't think of. Making this topic public/private keys more understandable will also make users aware, that this exists.

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