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No, they're using the term correctly. The plausible deniability in OTR comes as a result of forward security. Since past and future traffic can't be decrypted
by jnbiche 13y ago
No, they're using the term correctly. The plausible deniability in OTR comes as a result of forward security. Since past and future traffic can't be decrypted with a certain captured key, the entity that captures that key can't cryptographically tie an identity to the previous messages.
- mandalar12 13y agoIt goes futher than that in OTR. After the ephemeral keys are out of use, the public keys (used for encryption, not decryption) are broadcasted so if later someone gets an old encrypted message, it could "effectively" have be written by anyone.