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by al2o3cr 4368 days ago
It's Tuesday, so I guess it's time for another "assume a public-key infrastructure" post - this time with OMG BITCOINZ sauce on top.

It still handwaves away the biggest problem: getting users to store a private key securely. If that was straightforward, we'd all be using GPG already...

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For decent security, both problems need to be addressed- trusting the identity of public keys, as well as securing your private key.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a decent key-protection solution that doesn't involve custom hardware.