Re: secure sign & encrypt

[Derek Atkins <[e-mail]>]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by when you say Alice saves a copy
of the session key... How does Alice get that key to Charlie?  Also
keep in mind that the interior and exterior encryptions SHOULD be
using different session keys.  So, I don't understand what you mean?

Can you show the packets that Charlie sees?  I don't see any way
to add a new ESK on the interior message without invalidating the
signature....

-derek

Terje Braaten <[e-mail]> writes:

> David P. Kemp <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Your proposal for an extra packet does not address this alleged flaw.
> > Note that Alice could sign a message saying "encrypted to 
> > Bob", and then
> > encrypt and send the message to Charlie, thus framing Bob for breach
> > of confidence.
> 
> Now that I have had time to think about it, the same could be done if
> we used ESE. Alice can encrypt the packet to Bob and save a copy of
> the symmetric key used to encrypt the message before encrypting it with
> Bobs public key. Then she sign the encrypted packet, include some extra
> packet with the session key she saved and encrypt it for Charlie.
> Then Charlie receives an ESE packet where he can decrypt the inner
> encryption
> with the symmtreic key provided. And looking at the signature it looks like
> it is originally encrypted for Bob, so it "must" be Bob that has leaked
> the information and also given him the symmetric key.
> 
> So, in that respect my solution is no inferior to ESE regarding security.
> And you avoid the cost of one extra encryption.
> 
> -- 
> Terje Bråten
> 

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