From eugen@leitl.org Fri Aug 23 09:03:14 2013 From: Eugen Leitl To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:03:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20130823130312.GY29404@leitl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8552724786985931147==" --===============8552724786985931147== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Forwarded message from phreedom(a)yandex.ru ----- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:53:42 +0300 From: phreedom(a)yandex.ru To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.9.11; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; ) Reply-To: liberationtech > One difficult problem in public-key encryption is key exchange: how to get > a recipient's public key and know it's really theirs. > My plan is to make make your email the hash of your public key. > For example, my address is *nqkgpx6bqscslher(a)scramble.io* > (I borrowed this idea from Tor Hidden Services.) This is what we need everyone to adopt. Your ID =3D your public key hash and = not=20 an account on some server you don't control. Glad to see more people adopt=20 this idea. Any chance of interoperability with other projects with similar=20 aims and ideas like Cables? [1] [1] http://dee.su/cables --=20 Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Viol= ations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.ed= u/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change p= assword by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 --===============8552724786985931147==--