Re: Shared-Secret similar algorithm

[Adam Back]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:13:20PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> This works, if it doesn't really matter that the users have separate 
> keys -- ie, if it won't cause a hash collision or something in some 
> other part of the system, or if you don't care that the users can 
> identify each other by their key fingerprint. 

But they'll all have the same fingerprint because they'll all have the same
public key -- so they'll only be identified in the sense of membership of
the group of holders of that private key.  I'm not sure it's clear whether
this would be a good or a bad thing though.

Adam