Timeline for Why not use symmetric encryption?
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 0:46 | comment | added | Lie Ryan | Creating a public key is easy. Exchanging them securely, is not. Even though public key isn't meant to be a secret, if you send the public key over insecure channel, you will have no assurances that your adversary didn't just catch the public key in transit and replaced it with their own. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:48 | comment | added | Peter | @Tokk I am not saying that there are not cases where asymmetric encryption is not the better alternative, but merely that there are cases when it is not. I live in a state where the police are heavy-handed and intrusive, but the political system is far from totalitarian. (BTW Where life and death is at stake, I wouldn’t trust onetimesecret either, but unless you are personally being targeted by security services, it will do.) | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 19:01 | comment | added | Smithers | Especially noteworthy for questioning the web service. Sure, today, you may trust them (I wouldn't). But if they're not your web service, how would you know if they've been compromised? | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 12:38 | history | answered | Tokk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |