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How can you tie a public key to a real name? What information does a public key leak?
by helper 14y ago
How can you tie a public key to a real name? What information does a public key leak?
- nsmartt 14y agoBy comparing the indexed public keys with github accounts. Should a user have both a pseudonymous account and an account tied to his or her real name, this would compromise the identity of the pseudonymous account. Edit: To be clear, this would only work if the same public key was used for both accounts.
- _kst_ 14y agoIf the target used the same public key elsewhere, that ties two accounts to the same person, which may or may not help figure out who that person is.