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What advantage does this have over spiped[1]? Since there's not really a good way to distribute public keys, you really need to just put them on a thumb drive a
by diafygi 11y ago
What advantage does this have over spiped[1]? Since there's not really a good way to distribute public keys, you really need to just put them on a thumb drive and walk them over to the person that wants them. And if you're doing that, you might as well give the person a shared secret.
[1]: https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
- rakoo 11y agoAnd the corresponding Go library: https://github.com/dchest/spipe https://github.com/dchest/spipe
- doomrobo 11y agoFurthermore, it looks like both of them provide PFS
- aidenn0 11y agoThe only advantage of public-keys over private that I can think of would be to reduce the number of servers with the private key.