Tinc's response to "Linux's answer to MS-PPTP"

[kent at songbird.com]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 06:26:16PM -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> > First, keys for the
> > symmetric cipher encryption are exchanged. Mallet cannot decrypt keys he
> > gets from Bob and Alice, because he doesn't have their private keys.
> But he does, he spoofed each connection and acted as initiator for both,

Presuming that Bob and Alice have previously exchanged correct public
keys, how does he do that?

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