[messaging] Peerio

Ben Harris mail at bharr.is
Sun Mar 1 06:37:28 PST 2015


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.
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