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E variant of external backend keys

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@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ The key name is typically some kind of hash, but is not limited to a hash.
The length of it needs to be similar to the lengths of other git-annex
keys. Too long a key name will make it annoying to work with repositories
using them, or even cause problems due to filename length limits. 128 bytes
maximum, but shorter is better.
maximum, but shorter is better. It should be entirely ascii characters
in the set `A-Za-z0-9` and `-` is allowed, but other punctuation is not.
It's important that, if the program responds with
`ISCRYPTOGRAPHICALLYSECURE-YES`, the key name contains only a hash, and not