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authorMark Haines <mjark@negativecurvature.net>2016-10-21 15:44:53 +0100
committerMark Haines <mjark@negativecurvature.net>2016-10-21 15:44:53 +0100
commit0a7d4e35ccee89c34adeb03b112d243a27326fda (patch)
tree7b7675ecc5c68672d20049a423879f8572301a2a
parent8c4a11a92d2eac501e06659dff062d84d5c855ec (diff)
Reword and s/message index/ratchet index/
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@@ -277,12 +277,13 @@ Limitations
Message Replays
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-A message can be decrypted successfully multiple times. This means that a MITM
-server can send multiple copies of a message and they will successfully decrypt.
+A message can be decrypted successfully multiple times. This means that an
+attacker can re-send a copy of an old message, and the recipient will treat it
+as a new message.
-To mitigate this it is recomendend that applications track the message indicies
-they have recieved and that they reject messages with indicies that they've
-already decrypted.
+To mitigate this it is recomendend that applications track the ratchet indicies
+they have recieved and that they reject messages with a ratchet index that
+they've already decrypted.
Lack of Transcript Consistency
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