Strongly Anonymous Ratcheted Key Exchange

ePrint Report: Strongly Anonymous Ratcheted Key Exchange

Benjamin Dowling, Eduard Hauck, Doreen Riepel, Paul Rösler

Anonymity is an (abstract) security goal that is especially important to threatened user groups. Therefore, widely deployed communication protocols implement various measures to hide different types of information (i.e., metadata) about their users. Before actually defining anonymity, we consider an attack vector about which targeted user groups can feel concerned: continuous, temporary exposure of their secrets. Examples for this attack vector include intentionally planted viruses …

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