[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #684: let client specify the encryption key

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Hey waitaminute, why does anyone need to specify the encryption key?   
I can understand why they would want to ask Tahoe to generate a  
random key instead of a content-hash-key (this speeds up the process  
because Tahoe doesn't need to read and hash the entire file in order  
to generate the key).  But why does someone (Shawn, this means you)  
need to specify a chosen encryption key?

It is a very dangerous feature and the more I think about it the more  
reluctant I am to add it to the API that we'll have to support for  
the rest of time.  Could we solve your needs some other way?

Regards,

Zooko