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From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: How to verify a wireguard public key?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:16:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfec7de6-8f7d-4e89-4e90-3865aa6b7d04@urlichs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB5G8p9nCdxkikyubjfjJ4bB4+9LXNrEbCN+ONfZn28g26WE0Q@mail.gmail.com>


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On 25.12.20 00:42, Adam Stiles wrote:
> "How do I validate Curve25519 public keys?"

You send a handshake packet to the owner of the corresponding private 
key and observe whether it accepted it.

The question is, why do you think you need a different/additional way of 
verifying the public key?

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-- Matthias Urlichs



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-25 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-24 16:00 Nico Schottelius
2020-12-24 23:30 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-12-24 23:42 ` Adam Stiles
2020-12-25  9:10   ` Nico Schottelius
2020-12-25 23:37     ` Matthias May
2020-12-25 23:47       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-12-25 22:16   ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2020-12-26  8:09     ` Nico Schottelius
2020-12-26  9:03       ` Matthias Urlichs

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