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Is it possible everyone overthought this?  It seems to me that it's partly a play on words.  Why would people be interested in a "public" key which simply as a matter of the name seems like something that wouldn't be hidden in the first place?  It would seem that people would be more interested in a "private" key, since it seems to be something you wouldn't be able to get. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.149|173.245.50.149]] 18:53, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 
Is it possible everyone overthought this?  It seems to me that it's partly a play on words.  Why would people be interested in a "public" key which simply as a matter of the name seems like something that wouldn't be hidden in the first place?  It would seem that people would be more interested in a "private" key, since it seems to be something you wouldn't be able to get. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.149|173.245.50.149]] 18:53, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 
:You're right in a general sense, but this wasn'the overthought. This is definitely about public/private key cryptography, and Randall has made comics about this before. His public key isn't interesting because no one wants to send secret messages to him; his private key would be very interesting because giving it out is a bad idea. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.37|173.245.54.37]] 01:12, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 

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