draft-mahy-mls-private-external

Private External Message extensions for Messaging Layer Security (MLS)

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MLS groups that use private handshakes lose member privacy when sending external proposals. This document addresses this shortcoming by encrypting external proposals using an HPKE public key derived from the epoch secret. It also provides a mechanism to share this key and protect it from tampering by a malicious intermediary.