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Re:Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Vi... by Aerbil313 on Monday March 25, 2024 @12:41AM (#39812919)
Public key cryptography doesn’t work like that. If you were given wrong public keys you wouldn’t be able to connect to start with.
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Re:Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Vi... by d-z-m on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:08AM (#39815818)
> Public key cryptography doesn’t work like that

Like what? I'm saying both sides of the connection would be given the wrong public keys by the coordination server. The private keys of which would be held by a MITM.

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