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Comment by doomrobo

There are middle boxes between the two peers, yes? Routers and such. They observe the encrypted messages. They can brute force the password, even after the session is over.

Even if you assume the PIN is uniformly random (you should not assume this), it is only log2((10+26)^6) ~ 31 bits of entropy. This does not satisfy standard notions of secure channel establishment.

parent doomrobo 1 year ago

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