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1Nominet's requirements
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4We currently use the PGP APIs to do the following:
5- Load a key ring into memory.
6- Find a key in a key ring and store a reference to it.
7- Use a secure key to sign a message in clear text ascii armour
8  (equiv.  of pgp -sta)
9- Check the signature on a clear text signed message, giving back
10  the contents, the key that signed it and the time at which it was
11  signed. If the check fails, we need to know the reason why e.g. Was
12  the signature corrupt, did it match the text, was the message in
13  the correct format, has the key be revoked etc.
14- Add an ascii armoured key to a key ring held in memory.
15- Store a key ring held in memory back to disk.
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17We may also want to use standard encryption and decryption in the future.
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19Our requirements
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22- encrypting, signing, decrypting, verifying documents.
23- creating keys
24- issuing key certifications and revocations
25  - key signing
26  - user id: add, remove, revoke
27- keyring handling (on disk storage)
28- keyserver querying fu
29- trust handling (a la gpg)
30- export of <everything>
31- import of <everything>
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33Specific non-requirements
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36X We will not use GPG slave processes to do keyserver queries - nor
37  any other slave process, this will be done entirely in-process.
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