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Re: [Cryptography] What is a secure conversation? (Was: online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tamzen Cannoy)
Fri Dec 27 12:09:52 2013
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From: Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen@cannoy.org>
In-Reply-To: <52BD2642.4030700@iang.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:07:23 -0800
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Dec 26, 2013, at 11:03 PM, ianG <iang@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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