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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • That’s kinda backwards, isn’t it? If I want to verify my identity to a company, they would send me something that only I could decrypt. Some government agency provides all the public keys of all citizens, the company takes my public key, encrypts some secret with it, sends it to me, and asks me to decrypt and return it. If I’m able to do so, I must be who I say I am otherwise I would not be able to decrypt the secret.

    In an ideal world, the company (or, even better, the employee) would have a similar certificate that I could use to encrypt my response with.