make it clear that key pairs are created per connection
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#### Establishing the Ephemeral Session Key
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When a weave peer has been started with the `-password` option, the
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initial handshake between the peers over TCP includes the exchange of
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the peers' public keys. Each peer generates a fresh public and private
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key pair for each connection, and these are created from the NaCl
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crypto library's `GenerateKey` function. Peers that were started with
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`-password` do not continue with connection establishment unless they
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receive a public key from the remote peer. Thus either all peers in a
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weave network must be started with `-password`, or none of them.
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For every connection between peers, a fresh public/private key pair is
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created at both ends, using NaCl's `GenerateKey` function, and the
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public key portion is sent to the other end as part of the initial
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handshake performed over TCP. Peers that were started with `-password`
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do not continue with connection establishment unless they receive a
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public key from the remote peer. Thus either all peers in a weave
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network must be started with `-password`, or none of them.
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When a peer has received a public key from the remote peer, it uses
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this to form the ephemeral session key for this connection. The public
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