On 07/15/2011 11:21 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
Just to be clear: there are _no_ OTR-related mathematical points or issues here. The logs were in plain text. OTR has nothing at all to do with their deniability.
It's a good bet the entirety of the informant's PC was acquired for computer forensic analysis, as well as every PC Manning is known to have touched. There's a good chance some traffic data was retained from the network where Manning allegedly did the chatting and data transfer.
Sure the logs we see are in plain text, but that's almost certainly not all the data in play. Deniability may yet still depend on OTR and its implementation.
Note that the logs indicate the parties were unauthenticated and the connection was bouncing. Was this a man-in-the-middle interception? Does the protocol and implementation issue a message to the user when an "unauthenticated" identity changes its key?
- Marsh http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs#m765
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