Re:An off-grid social network
by whiddershins on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:38AM
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I'm having trouble following this and the reply thread below. Why is identity device-specific? So every time a get a new computer I have a new public key?
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Re:An off-grid social network
by AljoschaMeyer on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:50AM
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You can also use the same keypair on multiple devices. This however results in another problem: You could post content from both devices simultaneously. But the underlying protocol requires each message to refer to the previous message by the same identity. So if two different devices post a message without having received the message of the other one, one of the messages is considered invalid.