Public Key Cryptography

Public key cryptography for signing, in brief:

• You posses your own public/private cryptographic key pair.

• You publicly share your public key.

• You sign a message with your private key.

• Others verify the signature using your public key.

• This proves the message came from you and hasn’t been altered.

• Strong cryptography is hard to defeat (that's why Bitcoin works).

Our use:

• Identity Layer (Your public key is your identity; you vouch for other folks' identities by signing statements refrencing their public keys)

• Delegate Keys (You create and give other services disposable public/private key pairs and use your private identity key to sign a statement that that key pair represents you on that service)