On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:17:20AM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Mon Oct  6 00:04:49 2008, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
>> The situation of talking to the police is clearly a situation where  you 
>> want a public key, not an SAS - this is why I thought you didn't  get how 
>> SAS works.
>>
>>
> Right, you'd ideally need a SIGMA-I, no SAS at all, and some method for 
> verifying the police's public key. But since the esession protocol provides 
> no method for doing that short of transferring the entire public key using 
> a side-channel, I'm not entirely convinced it helps much beyond moving the 
> problem about, and using a big chunk of static data with no agreement on 
> implementation instead of a short variable string.

XEP-0116 has provisions for both SIGMA-I and SIGMA-R.

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