"Alex Pankratov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >SecureIM handshake between two version 3.1 (latest) clients takes about .. 48 >bytes. That's altogether, 32 bytes in one direction, and 16 in another. And >that's between the clients that have never talked to each other before, so >there's no "session resuming" business happenning.
Or they could be using static/ephemeral DH with fixed shared DH key values, which isn't much better. (This is just speculation, it's hard to tell without knowing what the exchanged quantities are). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]