On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 3:31 AM Neil Madden <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> That is true, but is IMO more of a hindrance than an advantage for a PoP
> scheme. The very fact that the signature is valid at every RS is why you
> need additional measures to prevent cross-RS token reuse. This downside of
> signatures for authentication was pointed out by djb 18 years ago (
> https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/sci.crypt/73yb5a9pz2Y/LNgRO7IYXOwJ),
> which is why most modern crypto protocols either use Diffie-Hellman for
> authN (https://noiseprotocol.org) or sign a hash of an interactive
> handshake transcript (TLS 1.3 -
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446#section-4.4.3) so that the signature
> is tightly bound to a specific interactive protocol run.
>
>
Mostly for my own edification -  using Diffie-Hellman for authN (that a key
was held) was effectively at the heart of the "tentative suggestion for an
alternative design" that you had much early in this thread?

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