[tor-talk] Tor Design : Differents keys used for connection.

Brieuc Barthélemy bri at fatcha.be
Fri May 20 11:17:42 UTC 2016


Hey,
just to be sure what I understand:

"It sounds like the 'ephemeral keys' you mention could be the circuit-level
 keys, that is, the symmetric keys negotiated by the circuit handshake and
used for the lifetime of that circuit."

Is it the 128-bit AES key? They are talking about in point 4.1 of the
article?

Kind regards,

Brieuc Barthélemy

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Brieuc Barthélemy <bri at fatcha.be> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
> Glad YOU answered me, ashamed I didn't find it. ;)
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Brieuc Barthélemy
>
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> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:13:54PM +0200, Brieuc Barthélemy wrote:
>> > In point 4 (Page 4) the article talks about differents keys:
>> > - A long term identity key: to sign TLS certificate, OR route descriptor
>> > and to sign directories.
>> > - A short-term onion key: used to decrypt requests from users.
>> > - Ephemerals keys ( first words on page 5 )
>> > - And "link keys" for TLS communication.
>> >
>> > My question is: do you think the last two of them ( Ephemerals and link
>> > eyes ) are the same one ?
>> > Because I don't find any clear informations about those "ephemerals"
>>
>> You might enjoy
>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#KeyManagement
>>
>> It sounds like the 'ephemeral keys' you mention could be the circuit-level
>> keys, that is, the symmetric keys negotiated by the circuit handshake
>> and used for the lifetime of that circuit.
>>
>> --Roger
>>
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