On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:13:54PM +0200, Brieuc Barthélemy wrote: > In point 4 (Page 4) the article talks about differents keys: > - A long term identity key: to sign TLS certificate, OR route descriptor > and to sign directories. > - A short-term onion key: used to decrypt requests from users. > - Ephemerals keys ( first words on page 5 ) > - And "link keys" for TLS communication. > > My question is: do you think the last two of them ( Ephemerals and link > eyes ) are the same one ? > Because I don't find any clear informations about those "ephemerals"
You might enjoy https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#KeyManagement It sounds like the 'ephemeral keys' you mention could be the circuit-level keys, that is, the symmetric keys negotiated by the circuit handshake and used for the lifetime of that circuit. --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
