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I finally get it now. I feel like "public key" is a misnomer. It's really a "public safe". You put something in the public safe and then it's locked. Then only
by svnpenn 6y ago
I finally get it now. I feel like "public key" is a misnomer. It's really a "public safe". You put something in the public safe and then it's locked. Then only the person with the private key can unlock it.
- nyolfen 6y agoi saw someone on twitter suggest that public keys should be called 'padlocks'; definitely a more intuitive way to think of them