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Re: I foresee an increased interest in secret-sharing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Tobin)
Thu Sep 7 15:41:59 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:23:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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Ray Dillinger, at 11:48 -0700 on Thu, 7 Sep 2000, wrote:
> And I'm not really as concerned about them *accessing* encrypted
> data (though that's bad enough, Gods know) as I'm concerned about
> the possibility of them modifying data, forging signatures, and
> using the keys in blatantly illegal transactions which the key
> owner could then be prosecuted for.
Which is why OpenPGP keys have a primary and secondary keys. Divulging a
secondary (encryption) key does not involve divlulging your primary
(signing) key.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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