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implement George Danezis's Forward Secure Mix design as specified in the paper #56

Open david415 opened 6 years ago

david415 commented 6 years ago

although various post-quantum crypto ratchet constructions are possible... i think it would be a significant improvement to use elliptic curve crypto to implement forward secure mixes as described in https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/Dan:SFMix03.pdf

note that this task is low priority because our primary defense against compulsion attacks and key compromise is frequent mix key rotation every 3 hours.