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Re: Removing old keys

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Mon Sep 20 16:48:37 2010

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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	20 Sep 2010 16:32:56 -0400")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 16:11 -0400, Tom Yu wrote:

>> * delete all old kvnos
>> * delete one specific kvno
>> * something else

> It may also be useful to be able to remove one or more key:salt types
> from an existing kvno.  For example, a site which is migrating away from
> DES might want to (at some point in the process) remove all DES keys
> without force-changing all passwords.

Yes, definitely.  That's a very nice feature to have.

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