[[chef-dev]] Client key formats

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

For reasons best summed up as "Why not?" I want to try an write a Chef  
API client in Python. Most of the protocol seems pretty simple, but  
something that should be formally defined is what format client keys  
are in. Ruby will accept both PEM and DER encodings, but I would think  
most people are storing in PEM. Is it okay to say that this is the  
"correct" format or am I better off supporting both? Beyond that would  
it be worthwhile to put together a formal spec for the "opscode  
authentication mechanism" for other implementers? Right now the best  
(only?) reference looks like the chef and mixlib code itself.

--Noah