Re: Using G-Expressions for public keys (substitutes and possibly more)

[Jelle Licht]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I think we would probably want to improve on this end in the guile-
>> gcrypt module, i.e. have a public-key "constructor" that returns a
>> canonical-sexp and so on.  WDYT?
>
> I don’t find it very compelling given there’s already
> ‘sexp->canonical-sexp’ & co.  WDYT?

Well, the issue here is 'knowing' what sexp to pass along to that
function in the first place. Are Liliana & I missing something
obvious here?

I had to take a string representation of a valid canonical-sexp, and
pass it through string->canonical-sexp and canonical-sexp->sexp. It's
definitely not an issue for managing my local configuration, but it
seems silly to force _anyone_ wanting to write a canonical-sexp as a
sexp through this REPL adventure, for each kind of canonical-sexp.

- Jelle