Hashing a public key prevents you choosing arbitrary hashes. (Same as hashing any other document type... hash functions are designed to be one-way.)
Adam On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:07:59PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > Hashing a public key will work only if the key has to be signed by some > certificate authority, but that isn't desirable in most p2p scenarios. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences