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Sharing the key allows more than just decryption; it also allows undetectable modification of the traffic. A protocol which allowed third-party decryption but n
by cesarb 8y ago
Sharing the key allows more than just decryption; it also allows undetectable modification of the traffic. A protocol which allowed third-party decryption but not modification would have been designed differently.
- cbsmith 8y agoIn this case the key is used by a system that is reading a log of the archived traffic. It has no direct network connectivity to the production traffic. I think we can safely say it isn't modifying the traffic... in fact, that's a requirement for the security apparatus.