Travis Bemann <bemann@bemann> writes:
> This requires that the *first* connection between Alice and Bob
> *MUST* be MITMed. If this first connection is not MITMed, then MITM
> is not possible between Alice and Bob. This is the case with other
> protocols such as SSH (assuming that there is no initial shared
> secret).
This is the case with all public key cryptography.
A more potent solution would be one in which Alice and Bob verified
each other's keys with several other nodes, so that at least one of
them would have to be completely isolated from Freenet from the very
beginning in order for MITM to work.
-S
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