Removed --alias from verify command.

[daidoji]

Prefixes are 1-1 with aliases which are already required for this command and thus redundant. Removed for ease of use.

[pfeairheller]

The --prefix option is meant to specify the signer of the data, not the one verifying it. The tests in demo-script.sh are misleading because they use the same AID for signing and verifying.

If anything, the --alias argument can be removed because you don't need a Hab context to verify someone else's signature, you just need the Habery database so you load their key state in the Kevers.

[daidoji]

The --prefix option is meant to specify the signer of the data, not the one verifying it. The tests in demo-script.sh are misleading because they use the same AID for signing and verifying.

If anything, the --alias argument can be removed because you don't need a Hab context to verify someone else's signature, you just need the Habery database so you load their key state in the Kevers.

@pfeairheller so how would I restructure this not to have to use an alias to verify? Nothing in the verify command looks like its making a remote call to a prefix KEL in the wild so aren't aliases and prefixes 1-1 in the current implementation?

[pfeairheller]

The appropriate change here is to remove the --alias argument because a local Hab is not needed to verifiy a signature. The --prefix parameter is to allow the verification of signatures from other folks AIDs. If we rely on --alias and a Hab, we can only verify our own signatures.

To remove --alias you need to change

with existing.existingHab(name=name, alias=alias, base=base, bran=bran) as (_, hab):

to:

with existing.existingHby(name=name, base=base, bran=bran) as hby:

And then change hab.kevers to hby.kevers