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In addition to being a really succinct and well-written summary of how KCI attacks work and a good motivator for reading on modern AKE constructions like SIGMA work, this is also kind of the best possible Github bug report; in particular, I'm stealing this:

Is this an accurate representation of the handshake? If so, keep reading. If not, you may safely stop reading here, close the issue, and accept my apologies for the misunderstanding.

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Jason's report was excellent and the discussion contributed by azet and lvh was also very on-point.

In contrast, some of the Tox team's response makes me want to take up drinking. The "crypto secret club gimmick" remark in particular.

Note that kebolio is in no way affiliated with Tox or TokTok, just a random person contributing to the discussion.

I take full responsibility for everything I said, but I hope I don't need to take responsibility for other people's posts. As nbraud (who is in fact a contributor) noted, this has nothing to do with a secret club. I like to think that all actual contributors are open for discussion and willing to learn what they do not yet know.

> I take full responsibility for everything I said, but I hope I don't need to take responsibility for other people's posts.

I would never ask you to do so! Thanks for clarifying.

I'm not part of the Tox/Toktok project.

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