Private Key Trust Issues
Discussions focus on security concerns, misconceptions about public vs. private keys, and trust risks in third-party key generation, storage, and sharing in cryptography.
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Because public keys are somewhat publicly available information?
It's a public key. You should operate under the assumption that anyone could have it at any time.
With other private keys stored somewhere. You're just kicking the can down the road.
How can your users trust that you do not keep a copy of the private key?
letting someone else generate your private key, seems legit!
Why would the government have your private key? All they need is your public one.
Doesn't it amount to them knowing your public key?
Sure I guess, if you want to share private keys with friends.
Sharing private keys gets around all that.
How will they keep the private keys secret?