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pretty Easy privacy (pEp): Contact and Channel Authentication through Handshake
draft-marques-pep-handshake-03

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
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Authors Hernâni Marques , Bernie Hoeneisen
Last updated 2020-01-08 (Latest revision 2019-07-07)
Replaced by draft-pep-handshake
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Abstract

In interpersonal messaging end-to-end encryption means for public key distribution and verification of its authenticity are needed; the latter to prevent man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This document proposes a new method to easily verify a public key is authentic by a Handshake process that allows users to easily authenticate their communication channel. The new method is targeted to Opportunistic Security scenarios and is already implemented in several applications of pretty Easy privacy (pEp).

Authors

Hernâni Marques
Bernie Hoeneisen

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