[OTR-dev] MAC keys to be revealed

[verbal]

do you mean you dont understand why you would want to send our your
old mac keys? if that is the question, then the answer is because it
allows for your conversation to be forged at a later point in time.
this lets you say "hey, i didnt say that" after the conversation time
period. during the conversation period, no one can read your
conversation or pretend to be you.

hope that helps,

verbal


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:36:03 -0500, alex323 <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:06:28PM -0500, alex323 wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Do you HAVE to send out your old MAC keys?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Even moreso than all those surveillance cameras everywhere, it's
> >For Your Protection.  You really really want people to be able to forge
> >messages after the fact.
> >
> >
> Why? I cannot fathom why you'd want that.
> 
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