Thanks a lot Pieter, I had missed that section. I still miss the why somewhat though, is this purely to save computing power as the transient keys are less important to protect then the permanent keys ? And thus use shorter nonces.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: > It says, in the RFC: "We use two kinds of nonces in CurveZMQ. A long > nonce protects permanent keys, and is 16 octets from a good random > number generator. A short nonce protects transient keys and is an > 8-octet sequential number." > > http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:26 > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Diego Duclos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've been reading up on the CurveZMQ and CurveCP specs. > > I've noticed they use a mix if 8 and 16 bytes nonces, who are then all > > passed to 24 bytes using a constant prefix. > > I was wondering when 8 byte and when 16 byte nonces are chosen as well as > > why. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Diego Duclos > > Palm Stone Games > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zeromq-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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