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1.TH GNUNET-PSEUDONYM "1" "30 Mar 2010" "GNUnet" 1.TH GNUNET-PSEUDONYM "1" "25 Feb 2012" "GNUnet"
2.SH NAME 2.SH NAME
3gnunet\-pseudonym \- create, delete or list pseudonyms 3gnunet\-pseudonym \- create, delete or list pseudonyms
4.SH SYNOPSIS 4.SH SYNOPSIS
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13gnunet\-pseudonym can be used to list all of the pseudonyms that were created locally, to create new pseudonyms, to delete existing pseudonyms (the namespace will continue to exist, but it will be impossible to add additional data to it) and to list all of the namespaces (with their meta-data) known to the local user. By default, gnunet\-pseudonym lists all pseudonyms that were discovered so far. 13gnunet\-pseudonym can be used to list all of the pseudonyms that were created locally, to create new pseudonyms, to delete existing pseudonyms (the namespace will continue to exist, but it will be impossible to add additional data to it) and to list all of the namespaces (with their meta-data) known to the local user. By default, gnunet\-pseudonym lists all pseudonyms that were discovered so far.
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15Creating a new pseudonym requires using the \-C option together with a nickname that is to be used for the namespace. Nicknames must be unique for each user, global uniqueness is desireable but not necessary. If two namespaces in GNUnet use the same nickname all GNUnet tools will display the nickname together with a number which ensures that the name becomes locally unique to avoid ambiguity. Additional options can be passed together with the \-C option to provide additional meta\-data that describes the namespace. Possible meta\-data includes the 'realname' of the person controlling the namespace, a description, the mime\-type for content in the namespace (useful if the namespace is dedicated to some specific type of content) and contact information. One important piece of meta\-data that can be specified is the identifier of a document root, that is the name of a file in the namespace that is a portal to the rest of the content. This is useful to help users find this root in the absence of conventions. Note that all of this meta\-data is optional and should never be trusted blindly. 15Creating a new pseudonym requires using the \-C option together with a nickname that is to be used for the namespace. Nicknames must be unique for each user, global uniqueness is desirable but not necessary. If two namespaces in GNUnet use the same nickname all GNUnet tools will display the nickname together with a number which ensures that the name becomes locally unique to avoid ambiguity. Additional options can be passed together with the \-C option to provide additional meta\-data that describes the namespace. Possible meta\-data includes the 'realname' of the person controlling the namespace, a description, the mime\-type for content in the namespace (useful if the namespace is dedicated to some specific type of content) and contact information. One important piece of meta\-data that can be specified is the identifier of a document root, that is the name of a file in the namespace that is a portal to the rest of the content. This is useful to help users find this root in the absence of conventions. Note that all of this meta\-data is optional and should never be trusted blindly.
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17As mentioned before, by default, gnunet\-pseudonym simply lists the meta\-data available for other namespaces. Namespaces can be discovered whenever the peer obtains the namespace advertisement. Namespace advertisements can be found using ordinary keyword\-based searches (by default gnunet\-pseudonym publishes the namespace advertisement under the keyword 'namespace', but the \-k option can be used to specify other keywords) and under the 'empty' identifier of the respective namespace (using a namespace\-search if the namespace ID is already known). 17As mentioned before, by default, gnunet\-pseudonym simply lists the meta\-data available for other namespaces. Namespaces can be discovered whenever the peer obtains the namespace advertisement. Namespace advertisements can be found using ordinary keyword\-based searches (by default gnunet\-pseudonym publishes the namespace advertisement under the keyword 'namespace', but the \-k option can be used to specify other keywords) and under the 'empty' identifier of the respective namespace (using a namespace\-search if the namespace ID is already known).
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