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jaap-jan
d162271a45
Trust was created by the connect prompt and withdrawn from one host's editor, so a pin for a host that had since been deleted or re-addressed was unreachable from the interface entirely. It went on refusing connections and nothing in the application would admit it was there. Two of the four recorded debts were really this one: leftover pins, and no list to see them in. A fourth section in the vault column, and the first that adding one has been cheap for — three edits and two layout tests, which is what #8 and #9 were for. No editor and no Add, which makes it the only section with neither. A pin is not something anybody writes: it appears when somebody approves a fingerprint at the moment of connecting, which is the one place a person can actually check it against what the operator published. A form for typing one in would be a form for pasting whatever a man in the middle just offered. So the section exists to show and to withdraw, which is exactly what was missing. The fingerprint is shown in full, wrapped, in a monospace line. The only thing anybody does with one is compare it against a fingerprint an operator published, and half of one cannot be compared — it can only be glanced at, which is the habit pinning exists to replace. Nothing here is secret; a host key fingerprint is published on purpose. A pin no host in this vault dials is badged rather than hidden or deleted. That is the leftover the debt was about, and keeping it is still right: the address may be reached by something without a bookmark, and trust is about the endpoint rather than the bookmark. The badge is a hint and not a verdict, which is why nothing acts on it. Matched case-insensitively, because a host name is, and because a list that called DB.internal unused next to a host saved as db.internal would be inviting somebody to delete trust they rely on. Forgetting goes through the same ForgetAsync as the host editor's button, which withdraws every pin for the address rather than the selected row. Deliberate: somebody who has stopped trusting a machine has not decided to keep trusting one of its keys, and a second pin under another algorithm would go on being offered at the next handshake — which reads as a withdrawal that did not work. The status line says how many went, and the change is pushed immediately, because the other machines are the ones still refusing to connect to a rebuilt server. The list is read through the repository rather than through VaultKnownHostStore, whose snapshot is shaped for the SSH handshake: one pin per endpoint, deduplicated, no entity ids. This list has to show duplicates, because a duplicate is one of the things worth seeing. Two mutations, both caught: calling every pin dialled (3 tests), and defaulting the selection to the first row (1) — the same hazard as the credential list, since Forget acts on the selection. The selector now holds four buttons in 340 pixels, and TheSelectorIsBigEnoughToClick measures how much of that they use rather than leaving a fifth section to discover it as "a button falls outside the window". 936 tests green across 16 projects, 6 of them new. Zero warnings, format clean. Not verified: how the section looks. It joins the list in outstanding item #7.