On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:00:23PM +0100, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote:
> * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2007-03-23 14:52:19]:
> 
> > Well, a more obvious flaw which exists and is exploitable right now, and
> > is something of a "newbie crypto mistake" is the fact that we are still
> > using ephemeral diffie-hellman (with an outer encryption layer so you
> > need to know both refs). We really should fix that... Nextgens has
> > decided not to, should I?
> 
> I haven't decided not to: I was planning to do it last WE but I was too
> sick to do anything usefull.
> 
> Btw, I still don't get why we should make it a priority *now* ; it has been
> like that since the beginning! Are we the day before a non-advertised
> release ?

No, it's been bugging me for some time, as you know. It's a dumb crypto
mistake that has no business on the production version of Freenet -
alpha or not.
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