Trillian Secure IM

[Peter Gutmann]

"Alex Pankratov" <ap at poneyhot.org> writes:

>SecureIM handshake between two version 3.1 (latest) clients takes about .. 48
>bytes. That's altogether, 32 bytes in one direction, and 16 in another. And
>that's between the clients that have never talked to each other before, so
>there's no "session resuming" business happenning.

Or they could be using static/ephemeral DH with fixed shared DH key values,
which isn't much better.  (This is just speculation, it's hard to tell without
knowing what the exchanged quantities are).

Peter.

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