On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:17 AM, grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:
that key (since you don't have the private key). You _could_ do something weird in the TAP protocol where you .
Seems an editing/thought dropoff up there, it happens.
Sorry, I do that a lot. It happens because I tend to write three or four sentences at the same time. I start writing one, then realize I need to write another, so I begin another sentence without finishing the first. Then it happens again, and I start a third sentence without finishing the second, and so on. Usually, I finish all the sentences as I walk back up my stack, but that still leaves more than a handful unfinished.
In any case, I just expanded that sentence to read:
(You _could_ do something weird in the TAP protocol where you receive an onionskin that you can't process, relay it to the party who can process it, and receive a valid reply that you could send back to the user. But this makes you a less effective man-in-the-middle than you would be if you had just generated your own onion key. The ntor protocol shuts down this possibility by including the router identity in the material to be hashed, so that you can't complete an ntor handshake unless the client agrees with you about what identity goes with your ntor onion key.)
Thanks for catching this,