Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > following-up to my own post: > > On Monday,2009-09-14, at 10:22 , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > >> David-Sarah Hopwood suggested the improvement that the integrity-check >> value "V" could be computed as an integrity check (i.e. a secure hash) >> on the K1_enc in addition to the file contents. > > Oops, that's impossible. What David-Sarah Hopwood actually said was > that this would be nice if it were possible, but since it isn't then > people should pass around the tuple of (v, K1_enc) whenever they want to > verify the integrity of the ciphertext. > > http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-September/002798.html
Zooko is referring to the argument after the first '-' in that post. Note that the argument after the second '-' was wrong; see the correction in <http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-September/002801.html>. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
