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Re:The Security, Usability and Multi-Device-Problem of Messa... by ianmiers on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:20AM (#10751931)
What are the substantial barriers to deploying something like CONIKS? It doesn't seem to help the multi-device problem, but in general it does seem useful.
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Re:The Security, Usability and Multi-Device-Problem of Messa... by brendanfarmer on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:47PM (#10754417)
I would be curious about this as well. The only attack that I can think of that he might be referring to is the server publishing bad keys for a particular client while that client is offline. This equivocation would be caught fairly promptly though, and I think that eventual proof-of-equivocation is better than forcing users to manually verify keys.
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