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If Frederic Jacobs says he communicated with Schnorr, he thinks he communicated with Schnorr. It's possible that someone is impersonating Schnorr.
by cperciva 6y ago
If Frederic Jacobs says he communicated with Schnorr, he thinks he communicated with Schnorr. It's possible that someone is impersonating Schnorr.
- GordonS 6y agoIf only there was some kind of way of proving who you were... possibly using public key cryptography? ;)
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y agoElliptic Curve Cryptography still has an excellent theoretical security record, and will likely keep its record until the advent of quantum computers. Also, trustworthy digital signature is actually not too difficult even given the doomsday scenario - if all public-key cryptosystems are broken, as long as you still have a secure hash function, you can use Merkle signature [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_signature_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_signature_scheme
- silly-silly 6y agoThis only works for alice and bob.