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> On May 11, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Arnis <arnis@ut.ee> wrote:
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> The work shows that although the design of TorChat is sound, its implementation has several flaws, which make TorChat users vulnerable to impersonation

The impersonation vulnerability mentioned here is inherent; it requires compromising the victims system to steal their private key, or using brute-force.

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