On 8/31/06, Dave Baker <dbkr at freenetproject.org> wrote:
>
> I assume he means by doing that, you'll get messages directed to those
> addresses. This was a massive part of the design consideration when
> implementing KSK addresses, and the conclusion was that no - it shouldn't
> happen, for the reason that routing in 0.7 is quite good, so anyone
> sending a
> mail to those addresses, when they look up the mailsite, their request
> will
> be routed to the correct location in the network (where the genuine
> mailsite
> is) rather than the spoofed one which is in an arbitrary place in the
> network.
>
> This is why KSK addresses are only 'probably' secure. :) To thwart this
> attack, just use your long, secure address.


sp the messages themselves are not encrypted?
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