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by CyberDildonics 3866 days ago
I've gotten the impression that the NSA has their thump on the standard web of trust surrounding certificates.

Now if we combined IP addresses and public keys so they were one and the same we might be onto something.

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That's essentially how Tor Hidden Services work. The private key is used to generate the public key (and the hash of that key). The hash is the onion address used to access the hidden service. Quite a clever combination.
Tor Hidden Services, I2P eepsites, CJDNS addresses, etc...