[Cryptography] What is a secure conversation? (Was: online forums...)

Tamzen Cannoy tamzen at cannoy.org
Fri Dec 27 12:07:23 EST 2013


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On Dec 26, 2013, at 11:03 PM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:

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> Moderator.  We should really model the moderator as an attacker.  Call her Trinity as a ttp.  What happens if she starts drifting the conversation towards ... oh, encouraging the IETF to standardise on DUAL_EC?  Her easy attack is to drop posts, so we might want to browse that which was censored.
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> Trinity might also start mitm'ing, by actively sending messages out to people that don't go to others.  So we might want to know that all messages got to everyone, and no selective conversations are happening.
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> iang
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Ah, I only have access to the web client for approval. Only Perry has actual access to the list. But of course I'd say that. :)

Tamzen




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