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AES is really great compared to RSA, so I put my AES key on my website instead of my RSA public key. It's made it very easy for people to contact me securely.
by BrandonY 13y ago
AES is really great compared to RSA, so I put my AES key on my website instead of my RSA public key. It's made it very easy for people to contact me securely.
- sp332 13y agoAES is symmetric...
- BrandonY 13y agoYeah, that makes it really convenient for me if I have to decrypt an important message from a public computer.
- xerophtye 13y agoexactly... I am just as confused as you are. What's the point of using AES if you are putting its key out on the open? O_O that's like using a very sophisticated lock on your front door and put up a sign saying "The key is under the Mat"
- Kliment 13y agoI believe the person was joking.
- klochner 13y agoIs it really secure if everyone has the key?
- sudhirj 13y agoNo, it isn't. He/She is trying to be funny.
- rdl 13y agoOne of the saddest things about Snowden/Manning/NSA/etc. is that sarcasm and irony are no longer really safe to use in anything even vaguely related. Must really hurt The Onion.
- fayyazkl 13y agoExactly, the same thing i am wondering. AES is symmetric. So same key is used for encryption and decryption against RSA which is asymmetric. So putting key on website is effectively the same as not encrypting at all. Did i miss any thing here?
- mvanveen 13y agojust the humor
- nraynaud 13y agothe trick with humor outside your main field is detecting it. I was like: "isn't AES a symmetric stuff ?" for a few second. the other trick is naming thing: why would such a vague name like "Advanced Encryption Standard" designate specifically symmetric cipher?