7 Apr
2011
7 Apr
'11
10:10 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ian Goldberg iang@cs.uwaterloo.ca wrote: [...]
The phrase that jumps to mind is, "Danger Will Robinson!". ;-) If we're redesigning the AKE (authenticated key agreement) bits, we probably shouldn't just make up our own stuff.
Indeed! I am hoping that by threatening to do so, I can get the cryptographers on the list to take an interest and tell us what to do instead. ;)
(For background on why we would want to do crypto migration at atll, see https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/ideas/xxx-cry... , for which there was never really enough comment. See also proposal 176, which is totally Made Of Crypto.)
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Nick