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It was done before. See Signal's predecessor, Textsecure (before they added Signal protocol, pre-2.7.0). If I recall it limited encrypted messages to 60 charac
by joecool1029 10y ago
It was done before. See Signal's predecessor, Textsecure (before they added Signal protocol, pre-2.7.0).
If I recall it limited encrypted messages to 60 characters before splitting. It was also annoying in that you needed to initiate an OTR handshake to start messaging.
- digi_owl 10y agoThat handshake, or the initial exchange of public keys, is the one thing that seems to stymie general adoption of encryption for personal communication.
- joecool1029 10y agoCurrent Signal fortunately doesn't make this apparent to the end user, it's install and go message whomever advertises support. I'm ditching Pidgin-OTR today actually because of the OTR usability issues needing to handshake on every laptop restart. Will be going over to bitlbee terminating OTR on a server and then accessing my ZNC supporting push through TLS. Much less jarring. OMEMO would be better than OTR for this, but not much supports it yet.