[noise] Cap'n Proto case (was: Potential redesign?)

[Tony Arcieri]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Kenton Varda <kenton at sandstorm.io> wrote:

> We will have some bootstrapping mechanism for this. I'm mostly hand-waving
> it for now because I'm not as worried about optimizing this bootstrapping,
> so we can use a standard non-0-RTT approach. Once a node is connected,
> though, introductions to new nodes in the mesh will be common and so need
> to be 0-RTT.
>

Just as one example (not necessarily a recommended approach), Tahoe-LAFS is
built on a CapTP-inspired system called Foolscap, and has clients join the
"grid" by first connecting to an "introducer" and authenticating themselves
by (I believe?) encrypting an introducer-specific challenge message to the
introducer's public key.

Once a node has joined the grid the introducer provides a directory to all
of the other nodes' public keys.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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