On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Tony Arcieri <basc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Philliam Hallam-Baker posted this to the CFRG recently: > > https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hallambaker-mesh-recrypt-00.txt > > He's looking for a general, IETF-level solution for > multiparty/multi-device encrypted messaging. > > I think he misses out on some of the prior art (e.g. multiparty Signal > protocol) but, in general, I think it's an interesting problem worth > solving. > I suggested followups to the endym...@ietf.org mailing list rather than CFRG though. I know folk have proposed some of the applications before. The mailing list server for example. But I don't think we have tried to apply them to a protocol before. One possible reason for the lack of progress is that using recryption requires a mechanism for managing private keys which has been absent till now
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