Re: [Bitmessage] A proposal, what do you think?

On 2/18/2025 1:58 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 2/18/2025 1:53 PM, Onion Courier wrote:

Let's assume Bob travels a lot and does not want to take any devices
with him, including his private keys, email addresses etc., but Alice
wants to be sure that she is communicating securely with Bob, once he
arrived at his various destinations.
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Prior his departure they both agreed on (a) shared secret(s) they will use.

 If this is a truly secret key, then they are already setup for a secure channel anyway using existing symmetric encryption techniques?
  http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1? ct_hmac_cipher=189e8b754b816c819e0dd0d9c33a65de192cc7b83213ae1a267626c6cc876515b5f3693848472fa86496b3d7ce280ef96c8bd421ad782c1682fd5f85234a39f5df0f439daabe2f01676108f5808c681b20bc0b6d95750355fad62e7ab577b5e505ef5b9ee9d8f12378021e81e97df1f9461fb1f2251190f940ad4454ef7170e353a0ed7f4879ee06e544a4e7cde58776cd02ce0d98ba52820d8f71784bf9c9e0a6badb0749b2d6a33ea1603d97da9ad1f52a4b8f8375e1bc136e362089933956d1cc3cb99883a969f8a944bbb3cc7c428caed0cb1aeb8cb170b414612553fdfe6a8f56e94d9f9ba071e6f05e

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Or are you talking about Bob getting kidnapped, and exposed to the rubber hose treatment? Then AgentX has the secret key; Spoofs as Bob into luring Alice into a rather precarious scenario?