[noise] Session identifiers
Alex
alex at centromere.net
Mon Apr 18 20:07:07 PDT 2016
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:21:32 +1000
Rhys Weatherley <rhys.weatherley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some equivalent session identifier for Noise, and/or should
> we specify one? Perhaps a final HKDF(ck, onelen) where "onelen" is a
> single-byte string to distinguish it from the "zerolen" value used to
> generate encryption keys? Split() would thus be modified to return
> (c1, c2, session_id).
>
It would seem to me that authentication is already handled by the
presence of static keys. I.e., given a compatible pattern, the
handshake will fail if the static key I have on file for you is not the
one I received during the handshake.
--
Alex
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