Re:Secure channels over TCP/IP
by tptacek on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:32AM
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Didn't CodesInChaos document a misbinding attack against CurveCP, too?
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He found problems with the identity binding where if even a short-term key was compromised, it would allow impersonation attacks in the future[1]. That's a poor way to handle failure (and it's fixed in CurveZMQ with the minor changes he proposed) but it requires a key compromise to exploit so it's not as bad as a straight-up misbinding attack which any MitM can exploit.
[1] https://codesinchaos.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/curvecp-1/