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Re:Subrosa – An encrypted communication platform by orthecreedence on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:58PM (#7900800)
Not really, from what I understand. Seems they are exchanging a symmetric key via RSA to facilitate two-way encrypted communication. This is pretty standard, browsers do this via TLS.
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Re:Subrosa – An encrypted communication platform by ctz on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:13PM (#7900904)
TLS does not use a single symmetric key for bidirectional comms. It establishes keys per direction.
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