On 27/08/13 at 10:05pm, Christian Huitema wrote: > > Suppose, as in Bitcoin, my email address *is* my public key > > You can even use some hash compression tricks so you only need 9 or 10 > characters to express the address as hash of the public key. > > That works very well, until you have to change the public key.
.. and until someone want to find a public key which shares the first 10 digits of the hash with yours. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
