[noise] Oxy: now using Noise

Justin Cormack justin at specialbusservice.com
Sat Jun 30 04:06:21 PDT 2018


It depends on your threat model; I think the Noise docs are very clear
about IK having reduced privacy hiding vs XK as the public
key is sent sooner, at a cost of slower handshakes for X vs I. I can't
find any docs for Oxy so I don't know what their design
requirements are.

On 29 June 2018 at 05:21, dawuud <dawuud at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> I looked and it uses Noise_IKpsk1_25519_AESGCM_SHA512.
> Doesn't this mean that it has the same privacy problem as wireguard
> that we discussed earlier?
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:48:59AM +0100, Tony Arcieri wrote:
>> Oxy is a Rust-based SSH alternative which has been getting some attention
>> lately.
>>
>> It previously used a bespoke transport encryption protocol but has just now
>> switched to Noise:
>>
>> https://github.com/oxy-secure/oxy/pull/130
>>
>> --
>> Tony Arcieri
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