[tor-dev] sketch: An alternative prop224 authentication mechanism based on curve25519

teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 21:27:53 UTC 2016


> On 18 Nov. 2016, at 03:52, David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I ended up using the x25519 scheme described above by Nick.
>> 
>> I also ended up dodging the UX questions raised on this thread, by only
>> specifying the Tor protocol level details, and leaving the out-of-band
>> HS<->client protocol mostly unspecified. I believe that this out-of-band
>> protocol and configuration details can be figured out in the future, and
>> we should not block on them right now.
> 
> Yes, I believe this is fine. Note that tor-keygen tool is getting another
> _very_ important use case here that is the key generation on client side.

The tor-keygen tool is not currently included in the Tor Browser bundle.
So we would have to add it (or provide an alternate method) for Tor Browser
users.

T

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