<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:14 PM, James A. Donald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesd@echeque.com" target="_blank">jamesd@echeque.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 2013-10-08 03:14, Phillip
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<div>Are you planning to publish your signing key or your
decryption key?</div>
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</div><div>Use of a key for one makes the other incompatible.�<br>
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Incorrect. One's public key is always an elliptic point, one's
private key is always a number. <br>
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Thus there is no reason in principle why one cannot use the same key
(a number) for signing the messages you send, and decrypting the
messages you receive.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> The original author was proposing to use the same key for encryption and signature which is a rather bad idea.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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