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

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Sat Dec 28 18:57:34 EST 2013


On Dec 28, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Natanael wrote:
> Moxie is trying to fix that, have you seen the "axolotl" ratcheting scheme (not sure on the spelling) that he and another guy developed, with the intent to establish PFS like security for asynchronous communication? I'd say it's something more like a very long latency version of regular PFS. The session keys becomes short term secrets instead. 
Thanks for the hint.  For those interested, have a look at https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
(which I've only glanced at so far).
                                                        -- Jerry

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