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Updated secure private channels: the good, the bad, and the ugly (markdown)

Dominic Tarr committed on 4/22/2015, 7:18:30 AM
Parent: 376aff64f1d07509ff2b55396b57dad4a041780d

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secure-private-channels:-the-good,-the-bad,-and-the-ugly.mdchanged
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7474 ### Dramatization of SSH connection
7575
7676 Alice: "hi I want to talk to you, in english, spanish or mandarin (prefer english)"
7777 > Alice opens a connection, and lists the ciphers she supports, with preference.
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7879 Bob: "hi I speak in english, spanish or mandarin (prefer english), okay lets whisper now"
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7981 Alice: passes a secret note to Bob
8082 > generates DiffieHelman key, sends public DH key to bob.
8183 > begins DH exchange
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8285 Bob: passes a note back, with I AM BOB signed on the outside.
8386 > bob replies with bob's public DH key, bob's public RSA key, and a signature to prove they are bob.
8487 > Alice now knows she is talking to Bob, Bob does not know who Alice is yet,
8588 > but they do have secure communication now.
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9295 We are only interested in pubkey based authentications.
9396
9497 The following is all private so Alice and Bob can speak normally.
95-Alice: hey I'm alice and I want to use pubkey auth with <algorithm> and <key>
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99+Alice: hey I'm alice and I want to use pubkey auth with `algorithm` and `key`
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96101 Bob: okay go ahead "Alice"
97-Alice: see it's me <signed>
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103+Alice: see it's me: _signed, Alice!_
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98105 Bob: Alice it is you!!!
99106
100107 ### Further Reading
101108

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