On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:14 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-08 03:14, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > > Are you planning to publish your signing key or your decryption key? > > Use of a key for one makes the other incompatible.� > > > Incorrect. One's public key is always an elliptic point, one's private > key is always a number. > > Thus there is no reason in principle why one cannot use the same key (a > number) for signing the messages you send, and decrypting the messages you > receive. > The original author was proposing to use the same key for encryption and signature which is a rather bad idea. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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