[noise] minor underspecification

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Tue Feb 20 18:57:32 PST 2018


On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Justin Cormack
<justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> 5.3 says
>
> Calls MixHash() once for each public key listed in the pre-messages
> from handshake_pattern, with the specified public key as input (see
> Section 7 for an explanation of pre-messages). If both initiator and
> responder have pre-messages, the initiator's public keys are hashed
> first.
>
> It doesnt mention what order to call MixHash if there are both
> ephemeral and static keys in the premessage on the same side

Good point, I think we can just add a sentence like:

"If multiple public keys are listed in either party's pre-message, the
public keys are hashed in the order that they are listed."

Trevor


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