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There is nothing reality defying about meeting up and exchanging keys in person. Unfortunately, that's a use case the Signal UI goes out of its way to discourag
by tveita 11y ago
There is nothing reality defying about meeting up and exchanging keys in person. Unfortunately, that's a use case the Signal UI goes out of its way to discourage.
It's not like they don't know how, copying Threema's UI would be a massive improvement. Hell, even Snapchat lets you add a friend by scanning their screen, it's not like it's some user hostile ivory tower feature.
- StavrosK 11y agoSignal does too. We're talking about contact discovery, not key verification. Contact discovery is the problem of, given a list of contacts, returning the ones that are on the service. Contact discovery without the server seeing the list of contacts is hard.
- newman314 11y agoGiven that the way Signal presents contacts is suboptimal too (contacts showing up irregardless if they have Signal installed only someone else uploaded said contact), I'd rather have a mode where I have to manually exchange contact info until such time secure contact exchange is solved.