Feature request: More crypto please!

Daniel Holth dholth at fastmail.fm
Thu Feb 1 05:07:47 UTC 2007


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Feature Request:

Each user has a digital signing certificate associated with their name
and e-mail address.

When they create a changeset it is signed by default. The signature is
an "extra", one of the key-value tuples you can store in each
changeset. The signature is of whatever the changeset id would have
been without the signature.

This allows each changeset to be non-forgeably attributed to the user
who created it. A different user may still be listed as the author of
that particular patch, but if that person complains the work isn't
theirs then you can go talk to the person who actually typed "hg commit".

- - Daniel Holth
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