[OTR-users] jabber jingle

[CLAY SHENTRUP]

I don't think this makes sense, but I'm too exhausted right now to have a
clear mind and analyze it.  Ian?  Anyone?

-Clay

On 12/17/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/05, CLAY SHENTRUP <CLAY at brokenladder.com> wrote:
> > dude, the recording of the call would be stronger proof than any keys
> would
> > be.  it would be easier to steal his private keys and impersonate him
> than
> > fake his voice.
>
> Alice (the secret police) can only record the encrypted call. She
> knows the Bob sent some bytes but can't prove what they mean.  Alice
> doesn't trust trent completely... which is why she doesn't just take
> his word for it when he says bob was planning on overthrowing the
> government.
>
> With OTR on text,  trent can give alice a decrypted copy of a message
> and the session key used to encrypt that message... and Alice, even
> though she has a recording of the encrypted data , can't be completely
> sure that Trent isn't framing Bob. ... this is because there is a high
> ratio of key data to transmitted messages (because there is an eDH
> exchange every message pair).  Trent could have just searched for
> session keys that caused bob's messages to decrypt to his choice of
> text. Because the session key is a key to an AES stream cipher (and
> not a onetime pad) this would require non trivial effort from trent,
> but if the messages are short this stays within the realm of doubt.
>
> The same protection isn't available for voice.
>



--
Here's an idea that would save the world:  I think, we should get some large
magnetic rings and attach wires to them such that one wire is attached to
each of a set of two magnetic rings in opposing polarity. Then, we should
dig up everyone that was a great thinker of the enlightenment and dip them
in molten iron. After that, following Maxwell's famous equations, we'll just
tell that girl and all the other stupids that we prayed for it to happen and
jebus made it work, we'll put all of our iron covered thinkers of the
enlightenment back in their graves inside the magnetic rings. Once there,
the combined speed with which they turn will be enough to ween us off fossil
fuels.

—NATE OBORNY, TALKING ABOUT A GIRL WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING
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