[OTR-users] Otr

[Carman Carman]

--- Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> 
I mean that an eavesdropper knows that a message sent
before Alice published the corresponding mac key wasnt
sent by a random third party. If the eavesdropper can
know when the message was sent then she can know this.

> Paul
> 



      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs