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awinter-py
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why does the device need to know its own key history?
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drrotmos
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Because the idea is that when you test positive, you upload DTKs for all days you could have been contagious, so that includes historical keys.
awinter-py
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ohhhh makes sense. I'll update the post
gruez
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Why not randomly generate a key for each day and store the keys for the last n days? 16 byte keys for 60 days is less than a kilobyte.
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