Re: Public Key Look Up
Richard Clayton <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[email protected]>, Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> writes >Right. Anyway, if I encrypted something using your DKIM public key, you could >easily decrypt it using the private key. please don't do that -- from a legal standpoint when resisting attempts by Law Enforcement to request private keys, it puts you on very strong ground to argue that a key has only ever been used for authentication rather than encryption also, by using the same key for different purposes you increase the risk of chosen protocol attacks and other bad things happening, which is why expert advice is to always to avoid loading the gun, even if you are promising never to point it anywhere near your lower extremities - -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBYJzyVd2nQQHFxEViEQLitwCfcZ3a2VwCSDavft0RZT/23GQoMBYAn1+D dXzhuvda4SxzC5YZ+7PZBcrI =wRnf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----