[Cryptography] Elliptic curve question
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Oct 8 16:14:49 EDT 2013
On 2013-10-08 03:14, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> Are you planning to publish your signing key or your decryption key?
>
> Use of a key for one makes the other incompatible.�
Incorrect. One's public key is always an elliptic point, one's private
key is always a number.
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.
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