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Comment by ignoramous

9 hours ago

> This is also why it needs PAKE as opposed to the simpler cryptography used in tailcat

May be my idea of simpler cryptography is incorrect, but PAKEs like CPace do seem simpler than public key primitives in Noise.

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ignoramous

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tptacek  9 hours ago

A PAKE is more complicated than Noise. Noise is fussy (for good reasons) but relatively simple.

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