Re: Secrecy and user trust

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:10:14 -0700,
  Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > The public key really must be distributed in a secure manner.
> 
> 
> Isn't the point of a Public Key to be publicly distributed?

Yes, but you need to know that you have the correct public key. So while it
doesn't need to be secret, it does need integrity protection.

> The Private Key is what you closely guard against all tampering.

The private key needs to be kept secret. Tampering isn't normally going to
be that big of a deal, since you'll notice and then realize it most likely
isn't secret any more and change the key pair.

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