On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 20:46, Florian Schmaus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 24.06.19 19:04, Ненахов Андрей wrote:
> > пн, 24 июн. 2019 г. в 21:59, Georg Lukas <[email protected]>:
> >> 1. I'd like to see certain fields of the <content/> being REQUIRED,
> >> especially:
> >>
> >> - the from address
> >
> > So much for deniability.
>
> You usually only need 'from' if you also sign the data, and then
> deniability is already gone. And if you do not sign the data, then the
> 'from' attribute carries no meaning and is actually harmful because an
> erroneous implementations could assume its value is genuine.
>

I think if you encrypt the data without a way to identify the sender, it's
not very interesting. But a system that encrypts, and then signs, as
distinct steps would mean that an attacker could resign a message, so a
"from" might be useful there.

But in no case does this mean deniability is affected. It might mean
anonymity is, though, in MUC for example.

Dave.
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