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Signal uses a home-brewed crypto protocol(^) and their CTO disallows third party clients, even based on their own open source code. Just use XMPP. (^) Granted
by ge0rg 10y ago
Signal uses a home-brewed crypto protocol(^) and their CTO disallows third party clients, even based on their own open source code.
Just use XMPP.
(^) Granted, moxie can be considered a crypto expert, and the design got some public auditing.
- dsacco 10y agoThe Axolotl key management algorithm was jointly developed by Moxie and Trevor Perrin. Both of them are widely respected in cryptography, and the protocol has undergone formal cryptanalysis. A novel crypto algorithm someone puts up on GitHub is "home-brewed." The Axolotl algorithm can no longer fairly be described as "home-brewed."
- mahyarm 10y agoYou can go start, pay for and manage your own server set and go hog wild writing whatever client you want to.