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Re: [Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (danimoth)
Wed Aug 28 08:56:50 2013
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:24:22 +0200
From: danimoth <danimoth@cryptolab.net>
To: Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>
In-Reply-To: <01eb01cea3ac$437c8720$ca759560$@huitema.net>
Cc: 'Jerry Leichter' <leichter@lrw.com>,
"'Wendy M. Grossman'" <wendyg@pelicancrossing.net>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com, "'Perry E. Metzger'" <perry@piermont.com>
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
On 27/08/13 at 10:05pm, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > Suppose, as in Bitcoin, my email address *is* my public key
>
> You can even use some hash compression tricks so you only need 9 or 10
> characters to express the address as hash of the public key.
>
> That works very well, until you have to change the public key.
.. and until someone want to find a public key which shares the first
10 digits of the hash with yours.
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