diff --git a/bip-0151.mediawiki b/bip-0151.mediawiki index cc797121..a4c8b8ec 100644 --- a/bip-0151.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0151.mediawiki @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Processing the message before the authentication succeeds must not be done. The 4byte sha256 checksum is no longer required because the AEAD. -Both peers need to track the message number (int64) of sent messages to the remote peer for building a symmetric cipher IV. Padding might be required (96bit IVs). +Both peers need to track the message sequence number (uint32) of sent messages to the remote peer for building a 64 bit symmetric cipher IV. Sequence numbers are allowed to overflow to zero after 4294967295 (2^32-1). The encrypted payload will result decrypted in one or many unencrypted messages: @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The Re-Keying must be done after every 1GB of data sent or received (recommended === Risks === -The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization. +The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization. Identity authentication will be covered in another BIP and will presume communication encryption after this BIP.