[OTR-users] Otr

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Dec 25 00:18:07 EST 2007


On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Carman Carman wrote:

> It just seems to me that publishing the mac keys
> doesnt really make more refutations for Alice. In
> fact, because it doesnt make a true symmetry between
> Alice's messages and those of a third party an
> eavesdropper can distinguish them by knowing something
> about when they were sent.

That assumes you could determine which of the two messages
(one real and one forged afterwards) was actually send by
Alice. I believe that is not the case.

Paul



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