[noise] Incrementing nonces

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Wed Jul 22 16:23:25 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Rudenberg
<jonathan at titanous.com> wrote:
> Currently the ENCRYPT/DECRYPT and GETKEY functions are supposed to “increment the nonce.” This appears to contradict Section 5.1 which says "The session nonce n is incremented after every encryption or decryption operation.”

That sentence in 5.1 was intended to reiterate the earlier
explanation.  I'm not sure how you're reading it as contradictory?

But I guess it's confusing, maybe delete the sentence in 5.1?


Trevor


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