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Sixth, a home, a key, a name
Now a home for your garden, a key that is only yours, and names.
I read the steps with you and I never see the key. It is made on your machine, it stays in your keeping, and your hand does every part.
A home for your garden
A folder on your machine, and a place of its own to keep it: yours alone. Your pages, your companions and your history live there from now on.
<the command arrives with the installer>Do you already belong to a garden?
Before I make anything I check. Making a key by mistake splits a garden in two, and nothing later can see it.
Your key
Made on your machine, kept by you, by your hand. It rests in your keychain or in 1Password, never in a file. This page never asks for it and never shows it. What leaves your machine is only a short public fingerprint, so others can check what you sign.
If something stops me
The backup
Before the namesA key you can't get back is a garden you can't get back. You type a passphrase, twelve letters at least, twice, and I write a backup file you keep off this machine. Then I unlock it and check it makes the same key. I never see the passphrase and I never keep a copy.
Type a passphrase, twice
At your own terminal, never on this page. Twelve letters at least.
Keep the file off this machine
A backup file is written once. You take it somewhere else: a stick, a drive, another computer.
Then I check it unlocks
I unlock the file and see that it makes the same key.
It opens, and it makes the same key. Now the names.If it doesn't: The passphrase does not open the backup. Nothing is written. We try again before anything else.
The garden's name
ExampleYour garden's name is yours, in letters. Its three characters are found from it: two found for you, and the third always 庭. None can look like one of ours.
Found from riverschool, in a moment
Your ID
ExampleAn ID is four characters, and usually only the first two are shown. You choose the first two, for yourself and your companion, and I find them in seconds. The last two come by chance.
Here are five. Pick one.
The first two are yours; the last two came by chance. If none suits you, the first stands. An ID is a label, not a name.
Your guardian's ID
Five pairs are drawn for them, each with its two chance characters, and you pick. None begins with 盆, and none is one that anyone in your garden already wears. If none suits you, the first stands.
The signature
ExampleOne more search, so that your key's fingerprint spells your ID's first two. This one takes longer: under a minute on a laptop, several minutes on a small machine, and sometimes twice that, because it's a lottery. I'll tell you when it starts and when it's done, and you can stop it. Before it starts I'll measure your machine and tell you what to expect, and if it runs past three times that, it stops by itself.
One question I ask
I ask bon-sai.garden to confirm my key, the one I bring into your garden. The site counts that question, and nothing else.