I'm burning karma like crazy in this thread, but I've stopped caring. > Stuart’s suggestion to encrypt passwords using RSA (so that they could be analysed by t

I'm burning karma like crazy in this thread, but I've stopped caring. > Stuart’s suggestion to encrypt passwords using RSA (so that they could be analysed by the holder of the private key) is cunning, but it would not have had the effect that Stuart expected. Does such an analysis include the 'identity' function? i.e. the other party can read my password? Am I having a stroke? Is this different from telling kids to bring guns and knives into school, so that you can build a better metal detector?