On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:44:26AM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:02:20PM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote:
> > Unless there is no indicator of the protocol and version before an
> > encrypted session is set up, they will be able to easily see this.
> > Therefore, we should make the actual protocol in use declared *after*
> > the encrypted session is started.  There should be no indications of
> > what protocol is in use before encryption is started.
> 
> Currently, all you see is:
> 
> <-random MPI
> ->random MPI
> -><encrypted data>
> <-<encrypted data>

Good.  This shouldn't be very distinguishable from white noise.  That
will put a major dent in anyone's plans to packet sniff for Freenet
nodes.

-- 
Travis Bemann
Sendmail is still screwed up on my box.
My email address is really bemann at execpc.com.
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