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| author | Mark Haines <mjark@negativecurvature.net> | 2016-10-21 15:44:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Haines <mjark@negativecurvature.net> | 2016-10-21 15:44:53 +0100 |
| commit | 0a7d4e35ccee89c34adeb03b112d243a27326fda (patch) | |
| tree | 7b7675ecc5c68672d20049a423879f8572301a2a /docs/megolm.rst | |
| parent | 8c4a11a92d2eac501e06659dff062d84d5c855ec (diff) | |
Reword and s/message index/ratchet index/
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diff --git a/docs/megolm.rst b/docs/megolm.rst index 56e5f1d..0994100 100644 --- a/docs/megolm.rst +++ b/docs/megolm.rst @@ -277,12 +277,13 @@ Limitations Message Replays --------------- -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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |