diff --git a/xep-0384.xml b/xep-0384.xml index 55c384e0..d9e9aa73 100644 --- a/xep-0384.xml +++ b/xep-0384.xml @@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ Trust management is a difficult topic, which is out of scope of this document.

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The OMEMO protocol protects against passive and active attackers which are able to read, modify, replay, delay and delete messages.

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The use case for OMEMO is a situation where the content of a conversation needs to be protected, but where the servers the message passes by can’t be trusted to keep the content of the message secret. For example when information that is under strict embargo needs to passed within an organization and the server administrator is not one of the persons cleared to see the information or when a couple is exchanging intimate messages and they want to avoid leaking of those messages to the server administrator.

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The OMEMO protocol protects against passive and active attackers which are able to read, modify, replay, delay and delete messages. The OMEMO protocol does not protect against attackers who rely on metadata and traffic analysis. The quality of the verification of the conversation participants OMEMO identity keys determines the level of protection OMEMO offers.

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  1. Libraries can use a Curve25519 key pair as their internal IdentityKey. In this case, the IdentityKey can be used for X25519 directly, and XEdDSA has to be used to produce EdDSA-compatible signatures. Note that libsignal by default does NOT use XEdDSA. libsignal includes XEdDSA though and has to be modified to use that to be compatible with OMEMO.
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  2. Libraries can use a Curve25519 key pair as their internal IdentityKey. In this case, the IdentityKey can be used for X25519 directly, and XEdDSA has to be used to produce EdDSA-compatible signatures. Note that libsignal by default does NOT use XEdDSA. libsignal includes XEdDSA though and has to be modified to use that to be compatible with OMEMO.
  3. Libraries can use an Ed25519 key pair as their internal IdentityKey. In this case, the IdentityKey can create EdDSA-compatible signatures directly, and has to be converted first to perform X25519.
Note that this decision is purely local to each client and OMEMO library. The public key is ALWAYS transferred in its Ed25519 form and only valid EdDSA signatures are transferred. The choice between Curve25519 and Ed25519 affects the definition of the Sig(PK, M) and DH(PK1, PK2) functions as defined below.