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How do you initially learn a recipient's key? That seems to often be the problem point.
by thedufer 13y ago
How do you initially learn a recipient's key? That seems to often be the problem point.
- oleganza 13y agoHow do you learn someone's username or email? They tell it to you. Actually, in Bitmessage they tell you an "address" which is a compact hash of a pubkey. Then, p2p network uses special kind of message "what's the pubkey for this address?" which allows your client to find out the pubkey. An address looks like this: BM-orkCbppXWSqPpAxnz6jnfTZ2djb5pJKDb (this one belongs to an echo server). People who got used to Base58-encoded Bitcoin addresses will find this familiar.