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Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption? |
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Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:28:48 +0200 (CEST) |
In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:11:02 -0400, Cem Karan
<address@hidden> said:
ckaran> Here is my suggestion for what to do:
ckaran>
ckaran> 1) The initiating side generates a random session key,
ckaran> encrypts it with the receiving sides public key, and sends
ckaran> it on to the receiving side.
ckaran> 2) The receiving side does exactly the same thing back. This
ckaran> solves the really weird race condition where both sides
ckaran> want to initiate communications at the same time.
Do we have the race condition problem? SSH and SSL works by having a
common session key for both directions of the communication, but your
idea should work.
ckaran> 3) [...] I'm suggesting compression because of what Brue
ckaran> Schneier says about how it make cryptanalysis harder, and
ckaran> makes encryption/decryption faster. If Monotone already
ckaran> does a good job of compressing its data, then this isn't as
ckaran> necessary (this would require testing to see what works
ckaran> faster/better).
Monotone already compresses most of the payload. Cryptoanalysis is
otherwise commonly made harder with CBC mode or similar (there are
more complex modes).
Cheers,
Richard
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Cem Karan, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?,
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Dirk Hillbrecht, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/10/25
- [Monotone-devel] Re: netsync transport encryption?, Bruce Stephens, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Jeronimo Pellegrini, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Ulf Ochsenfahrt, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, jp+mtn, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Ulf Ochsenfahrt, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Chad Walstrom, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Jeronimo Pellegrini, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?, Jeronimo, 2006/10/25