[messaging] Peerio

[Ben Laurie]

On 1 March 2015 at 14:37, Ben Harris <mail at bharr.is> wrote:
> On 01/03/2015 9:20 pm, "Ben Laurie" <ben at links.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 March 2015 at 12:33, Ben Harris <mail at bharr.is> wrote:
>> > On 01/03/2015 7:45 pm, "Ben Laurie" <ben at links.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 1 March 2015 at 07:24, Michael Hamburg <mike at shiftleft.org> wrote:
>> >> > client computers P^1/r = h^e, and uses the hash of that point as part
>> >> > of
>> >> > the
>> >> > secret key derivation.
>
>> Yeah, so now the client has h^e, but no-one else does - so what use is
>> that? I'm confused.
>
> Your private key is then a mapping of hash(h^e) or some similar
> construction.

Oh, I see. I knew I was missing something. :-)