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Message encryption #18

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rtens opened this issue Feb 27, 2017 · 0 comments
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Message encryption #18

rtens opened this issue Feb 27, 2017 · 0 comments
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rtens commented Feb 27, 2017

To actually assure that a zells is indeed in possesion of its private key, all messages to it must be encrypted with its public key. As an optimization, the protocol could support the exchange of a symmetric session key to use for future messages. But the fall-back is always the asymmetric key.

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