[noise] Handshake pattern rules

Alex alex at centromere.net
Sun Jan 10 18:30:56 PST 2016


On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:46:40 +0100
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:

> The reason is that the ephemeral keys act as random salts for
> subsequent encryptions. If this isn't in place, catastrophic key reuse
> will occur.

Could you clarify? What is the specific rule governing the order in
which DH operations should take place?

-- 
Alex


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