On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:00:27 +0100
Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10 June 2016 at 15:16, Rob Stradling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I think it's fair enough to say that if you withhold information
> > from CT, CT won't help you as much as it otherwise would have done.
> >
> > I see the attraction of replacing "redacted labels not with '?' but
> > with a salted cryptographic hash of the label, with the salt
> > specified in the Redacted Labels Certificate Extension", but I'd
> > prefer to avoid increasing complexity.
> 
> I also like this suggestion. It does have the obvious downside that
> dictionary attacks work, though they can be made expensive.

A sufficiently-long random salt makes dictionary attacks infeasible.
Since the salt is only specified in the certificate, anyone who knows
the salt knows the unredacted labels already.

Regards,
Andrew

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