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What happens if the private key is compromised, and you have to switch to a new one? Does the identity of the machine then change too?

• StavrosK 13y ago
  Necessarily, I would imagine.
• a3_nm 13y ago
  Yes, but with IP addresses your identity changes whenever your connection changes, which is much worse. When using fingerprints, instead, the machine identity stays the same (and conceivably you would just have to ping a decentralized repository of "fingerprints => IP" mappings).
  • dogem 13y ago
    And with this identity it is easier to track you.
    • a3_nm 13y ago
      Nothing prevents a machine from having multiple identities.
      • p4bl0 13y ago
        Or for an identity to "jump" from machine to machine at times.