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Comment by tptacek

Among messaging cryptographers, it's not even an argument. Serious secure messengers have been designed to avoid non-repudiation since OTR. Non-repudiation is a vulnerability: once counterparties have authenticated each other's messages, the legitimate need for authentication is gone; allowing random strangers to authenticate messages concedes information to them.

Here, have a link, from 2004:

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf

parent tptacek 6 years ago

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