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Comment by grrowl

> When you send messages, they're signed with your SSH key

It seems to me that they're encrypted with your private key and paired with "username". The client then attempts to decrypt using the public key associated with that username on github.

In this system, the receiver and any MITMs (okay, so everyone) know it came from "the real grrowl according to github" — authenticated but not confidential at all.

parent grrowl 11 years ago

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