[noise] selfie attack

[david wong]

I haven't had the time to read the paper, but when you are using NNpsk you're assuming that you are pretty much talking to yourself. So the attack sounds weird to me. 

David

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> On Apr 3, 2019, at 7:19 AM, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> 
> This paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/347.pdf points out that (in
> Noise terms) NNpsk handshakes and traffic can be reflected back to the
> originator if it acts as client and server and for some protocols this
> can be a problem. Not sure it is really an issue for the use cases
> that might use that, as assuming a psk is an identity is somewhat of a
> bad idea.
> 
> Justin
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