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How does Kloak handle metadata? If people can see who you communicate with, they can get access to your social network, which contains a lot of information. By
by Taek 11y ago
How does Kloak handle metadata? If people can see who you communicate with, they can get access to your social network, which contains a lot of information.
By seeing my location dozens of times, a company can figure out where I live. They might not know what bar I went to last night but they will be able to know that I visit Chipotele frequently.
It's better than nothing, but it seems like strong analytics could still access most of the important information.
- daviddahl 11y agoYou must approve all contacts who get a copy of your feed. There is no way to just follow others. It is a white-listed system. Analytics can only be performed by those you trust
- adrtessier 11y agoI was about to ask a lot of these questions of how deep the metadata layer really goes - including using SpiderOak as the threat. It seems this is built on Crypton, linked below; however, the paper itself [1] goes into a lot of detail on what metadata SpiderOak could see, and what they can infer from it. I am personally curious why p384/ECDSA was chosen; vs. p521 or Curve25519+Ed25519. I assume this is because p384 is standardized and recommended in NSA Suite B. [1] https://crypton.io/crypton.pdf https://crypton.io/crypton.pdf
- daviddahl 11y agop384 is the standard, yes, however, any future implementation of Crypton will, I hope, move to Curve25518