Re: [GNU/consensus] Eccentric Authentication again

[hellekin]

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On 09/05/2013 06:02 PM, Guido Witmond wrote:
>> 
>> Can you explain/point me to a resource where those steps (to 
>> avoid the mitm attack) are described?
>> 
> 
> That would be in the manual of the voice/video/chat package. 
> Usually it means validating a SAS (Short Authentication String) 
> once.
> 
*** You mean, beforehand, out of band? Doesn't it defeat the purpose
of authenticating strangers?

The MITM attack scenario nowadays seems quite... Normal.

I mean, who trusts the X509 infrastructure after the Snowden
Apocalypse? I thought the security model was "My node is secure.
Everything else is compromised." And even that does not seem to be
certain, so we *assume* our node not to be compromised.

==
hk
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