[zvrba]

I think there are only two safe options if your intention is to avoid being assassinated: 1) don't tell anyone, 2) publish it anonymously. If you want to be able to prove to somebody that you're the author, sign the paper and keep the private key offline on a piece of paper.

It'd be interesting if it could be used to manipulate voting results, but e-voting is still in its infancy.

[aewens]

Interestingly, the consequence of releasing that algorithm would make having that private key insignificant since most schemas rely on factoring primes to secure the key pair.

[rocqua]

HMAC with sha-256 works decently. No need to involve a public key.