[freenet-dev] Short refs was Re: alternative to #freenet-refs

[Matthew Toseland]

On Friday 16 November 2007 22:33, Michael Rogers wrote:
> > In other words, you can connect to a node having only its ARK? Hmmm.. this 
> > still gives away a lot of information about nodes (including darknet 
nodes) 
> > to any node listening to SSKs.
> 
> How so? Isn't the information in an SSK encrypted? If ARKs are secure at
> the moment, why would this make them insecure?

The pubkey itself for an SSK cannot be encrypted as a node forwarding an SSK 
has to be able to verify the signature. The data of course is encrypted... 
but if we use the same pubkey for connection setup, we are giving away a lot 
of information.
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