On 8/9/12, Watson Ladd <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Robert Ransom <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On 8/8/12, Nick Mathewson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, and Esfandiar Mohammadi have a paper in
>>> submission called, "An Efficient Key-Exchange for Onion Routing".
>>> It's meant to be more CPU-efficient than the proposed "ntor"
>>> handshake.  With permission from Esfandiar, I'm sending a link to the
>>> paper here for discussion.
>>>
>>> http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/~mohammadi/owake.html
>>>
>>> What do people think?
>>
>> * This paper has Yet Another ‘proof of security’ which says nothing
>> about the protocol's security over any single group or over any
>> infinite family of groups in which (as in Curve25519) the Decision
>> Diffie-Hellman problem is (believed to be) hard.
>
> Do you think a DDH oracle cracks CDH in Curve25519? If no the theorem
> says something.

Do you think a DDH oracle for Curve25519 can be implemented efficiently?


Robert Ransom
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