Thanks for correcting my answer. :)
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2015-08-26 12:10 GMT+02:00 Pieter Hintjens <[1][email protected]>: >> With ECC there is no symmetric/asymmetric choice. Or rather, it is >> asymmetric with the performance characteristics of symmetric. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but ZeroMQ uses crypto_box() for the actual > crypto operation, does it? In that case the correct answer would be: > > crypto_box() calculates the shared secret using scalar multiplication > from the senders private key and the recipients public key, encrypts the > data symmetrically using that shared secret and appends a mac when done. > > > > - Tom > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
