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Ask HN: Would this work? Encryption with IP addresses?

1 points by quotz 6y ago

Say our IP address consists of a public and a private key, the public key is what servers send encrypted data to, and the computer decrypts the data with the private key. Would this theoretically work and would it be of any good use?

tannerbrockwell 6y ago
You are describing is https://www.wireguard.com/ https://www.wireguard.com/ which is a stable choice for this application.
detaro 6y ago
Kinda sounds like Tor hidden services.
- quotz 6y ago
  I dont think so
  - detaro 6y ago
    Well, there's some variation in various approaches to routing, but routing like we do with IP wouldn't work with a key-based scheme, so you'd need some other mechanism for that.