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Re: V3 secret keys

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Wed, 15 February 2006 11:06 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:49:04 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: V3 secret keys
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Hal Finney wrote:
>>> Complications have been pointed out regarding sending multiple keys
>>> encrypted with different passphrases, requiring us to explicitly support
>>> multiply-concatenated symmetric-encryption & SKESK packets, which is
>>> not necessary at present.
>> It isn't?
> 
> No, I don't know of any application for that.

How about secret key storage? :-)

Nothing in the current standards would prevent it.

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