[liberationtech] [tor-talk] messing with XKeyScore

[Michael Rogers]

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On 14/07/14 23:29, isis wrote:
> Yep, the idea is pretty old. A variant of it was even written up
> into RFC1751 in 1994. [0] That one is already in the pycrypto
> module, [1] at `Crypto.Util.RFC1751`.

Some people on the messaging at moderncrypto.org list are planning an
experiment to study various methods of comparing fingerprints; perhaps
they'd also be interested in studying methods of entering fingerprints.

>> Or maybe adding a checksum field calculated as the first byte of
>> the SHA512 of the fingerprint?
> 
> Also an interesting idea. But what if they type the checksum
> wrong?

Forward error correction might be useful here.

Cheers,
Michael
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