Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:15:16
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Pavol Rusnak [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2014-03-12 šŸ“ Original message:On 03/12/2014 08:55 PM, ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2014-03-12
šŸ“ Original message:On 03/12/2014 08:55 PM, William Yager wrote:
> The proposed BIP uses a bloom filter, so it has both plausible deniability *and
> *typo checking. The bloom filter is optimized for two elements and will
> catch something like 99.9975% of typos, despite allowing two different
> passwords.

Ok, I see. So the spec allows one real and one fake password. That is
something I don't consider plausible deniability. I am not saying that
this solution is wrong, I find it quite interesting, but it's not
plausible deniability. ;-)

>> I'm afraid one would end up with code generated in one client that is
>> unusable in a different client, because the client's developer thought
>> that using fancier algorithm instead of the proposed ones was a good idea.
>>
>>
> This is clearly in violation of the spec.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought that outsourcing the KDF means allowing
the 3rd party to use any KDF instead of the specified ones. What would
be the reason to outsource if this is not possible, anyway?

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Pavol Rusnak <stick at gk2.sk>
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