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Because "private" here is regarding the cryptography and not regarding the disclosure? How are users supposed to obtain this key to use the service without it b
by vore 3y ago
Because "private" here is regarding the cryptography and not regarding the disclosure? How are users supposed to obtain this key to use the service without it being published?
- jiggawatts 3y ago“How can people get into my locked door if I don’t tape a key to it for them to use?” If the private key is public, it does nothing by definition and it may as well not exist! Just use plain text, HTTP, or whatever and stop fooling yourself. It’s like calling an open field a “secure facility”. The name is not the thing, the map is not the territory. Private keys are only private if they’re not public.
- riwsky 3y agoThis isn't about taping a key to _your_ front door—you're taping a key to Apple's.
- noirbot 3y agoYea, and like anyone who found out that someone taped the key to their door to their door, they changed the locks, and now everyone's mad at them.
- seizethegdgap 3y agoYou're not sharing the key to your house, you're sharing the key to one of the biggest skyscrapers in the world.
- jiggawatts 3y agoAnd now everyone is up in arms that they changed the locks. Get it? Get it?
- vore 3y agoThis is a private key to access Apple's service for a proof of concept. How is someone without access to an Apple device going to obtain such a key without it being distributed somehow? Nobody is surprised that Apple is able to revoke this key, by the way.
- dang 3y agoCan you please not post in the flamewar style? It's not what we're going for here, and you can make your substantive points without that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this multiple times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039759 (July 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27225044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27225044 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22938445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22938445 (April 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808005 (Dec 2019) We have to eventually ban accounts that keep breaking the rules like this. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review them and stick to them from now on, we'd appreciate it.