[Cryptography] Ratcheting

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 02:16:29 EDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:28 AM, <brennan.tobias at openmailbox.org> wrote:

> What sorts of attacks exists that might be able to compromise temporary
> secret keys during a conversation?


A more interesting target is a permanently stored message archive. Many
apps using such a protocol keep such an archive. Such archives are
orthogonal to ratcheting protocols, but something to keep in mind as part
of an overall threat model.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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