[noise] expected length of messages during handshake

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Wed Nov 8 22:21:28 PST 2017


On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 8:37 PM, David Wong <davidwong.crypto at gmail.com> wrote:
[Trevor]:
>> It's not an either/or, since NoiseSocket is built on top of the Noise core.
>>
>> As for encouraging Noise libraries to also implement NoiseSocket or
>> any other Noise-based protocol:  I'd encourage people to experiment
>> with NoiseSocket.  But NoiseSocket is young, and probably needs a lot
>> more work and implementation/deployment experience before we have any
>> confidence that it's the right direction.
>>
>> But to figure that out, we need to try it!
>>
>
> Totally,
> The experiment will also be more productive if we also have some
> guidance from you as to what we should implement and test :)

I'm not sure NoiseSocket has been implemented outside of Alexey /
Virgil Security, so any feedback on that document is useful:

Is it easy to understand and implement?  Does it work for different
use cases?  What else do we need to add or build on top of it, etc.

Trevor


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