On 3 Nov 2002, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> fish <fish at bovine.artificial-stupidity.net> writes:
>
> > is there an FCP command that I can feed in a public key and get out a
> > private key? (short of inserting something at HTL=0, which is what I'm
> > thinking of doing right now)
> >
> > - fish
>
> Of course not. Public -> private conversions are supposed to be
> computationally intractable.
So I can't type. sue me :)
> As for the opposite, private -> public, I'm of the opinion that
> clients shouldn't expect any relation between the key a SVK is
> inserted with and the key it needs to be requested with. The node
> returns the request key when the insertion completes, and I think that
> should be used. I believe that clients shouldn't dissect the insert
> key and try to put together a request key before seeing what key the
> node says to request.
See, that's a nice theory, but you need to know what your public key is in
order to do any sort of linking.
I have 5 different "bug reports" now which convince me that people are
not, in fact, capable of dealing with this.
- fish
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