[tor-dev] Hidden Services and identity-based encryption (IBE)

[teor]

> On 4 Dec. 2016, at 03:05, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 
> Read the Alpenhorn paper. Really neat stuff. It is able to guarantee forward-secrecy for identities and metadata and doesn't need out-of-band identity sharing. Can any of this stuff be borrowed for HSs?
> 
> https://vuvuzela.io/alpenhorn-extended.pdf

There's still out-of-band identify sharing:

"does not require out-of-band communication other than knowing the
other user’s Alpenhorn username (email address)"

They also don't seem to understand how to do onion encryption
efficiently:

"A naïve approach would be to onion-encrypt a message [but] each layer
of encryption adds additional space overhead"

And the entire protocol requires trusting at least one of a series
of key servers.

T

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