certs_*.json

[purplesyringa]

Maybe add some documentation on the format ZeroID uses? I looked through code and can't find any information about new certs_*.json in this repository.

[HelloZeroNet]

It's just an optimization to the site: As we are getting more users storing the old signatures are became problematic. As a solution I moved older signs to optional files (certs_*) and keeping only the usernames and the first 6 letter of auth_address in users.json and users_archive.json.

The first 6 letter of auth_address is necessary, because if you have a clean install and you want to recover your certificate from ZeroID you don't know the username, so you have to find user by auth_address.

It's possible that in the future we will remove storing old certificates in the future. As it's possible from recover it from any site you have posted before.

So:

• users.json: Latest usernames + certificates
• usersarchive.json: Older usernames + certificate for the one that has not been archived yet (it will be moved to cert* files if it reached 6000 non-archived certificates). For archived users it hold the cert file number (eg.: @10) and the first 6 letter of auth_address.
• certs_*.json: Older certificates in optional files