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This is the first time I’ve heard someone say sharing public keys is a security risk. Can you explain the threat model here?
by jdavis703 5y ago
This is the first time I’ve heard someone say sharing public keys is a security risk. Can you explain the threat model here?
- ragona 5y agoIf you ever manage to leak a private key it’s easier to track it back to you. There was a recent paper showing the ability to tie rather a lot of keys to the associated developers.
- wtetzner 5y agoI think it’s more of a privacy leak. E.g., the service could potentially figure out who you are if your public keys are tied to some other service, like GitHub.
- lenkite 5y agoWould be easy to contact other web services and determine the identity marching a public key.