[Tilesathome] Upload permissions for distributed server

OJW streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk
Fri Jul 20 21:04:45 BST 2007


On Friday 20 July 2007 20:38, OJW wrote:
> because you don't know who they are

Should clarify here: the GPG signature represents a program, a pseudononymous 
upload account.  We don't need to know which person is using that account.

In fact, the GPG key will always be a new one created specially for the 
tiles at home client, because it needs to have no password protection on the key 
itself, so that the scripts can use it easily.  So when I refer to GPG keys, 
it's definitely not your personal key that we're talking about.

Of course, you can choose to put an email address in the key if you want 
people to contact you. For example, if you want us to tell you that your 
client is rendering blank black tiles (or whatever) rather than simply 
finding your uploads blocked one day and not knowing why.




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