Tangle - cookie keys file

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Mar 8 03:11:59 UTC 2019


> If the cookie key file is unexpectedly removed, what other useful option is
> there? If the file was permanently deleted, there's really nothing to be done
> but re-create it anyway. 

The question is does the admin know something happened.

> Also, by the way, the cookie key file is storing the multiple cookie keys,
> right? So it get rewritten as key rotation happens? 

Yes.

The draft suggests a way to derive the next key from the current key.  So with 
a slight delay while the CPU crunches, you could avoid the write by just 
deriving forward until you got to the right place.

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