Pointless hashing of public key

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Decentralised Information Black Market

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Pointless hashing of public key #20

Open androng opened 9 years ago

androng commented 9 years ago

I have a question about the following step:

We hash the public key to get a secret. The chunk is encrypted using the secret with AES256.

What is the point of using a hash of the public key as the AES256 secret? Revealing the public key reveals the hash, correct? I read nothing about a salt.