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		simfoo on May 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance mess... But then how does Alice know if she's talking to the right Bob and not some evil middle-man? In other words, she has to trust the server that it is giving her the correct public key.

a1a on May 5, 2014 [–]

Signing. I.e. Bob encrypts a dummy message or whatever with his private key.

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