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AFAIU, the Signal protocol doesn't work with email, only with sms. Am I mistaken in this?
by CaptSpify 10y ago
AFAIU, the Signal protocol doesn't work with email, only with sms. Am I mistaken in this?
- mstef 10y agothe protocol is very generic and does not require anything related to phones. it is actually 3 parts, a key exchange, a signature mode and a ratchet. how you combine these is up to you. the app is one way to combine them with phones. there's other ways to use the protocol, that could also be applied to emails
- wtbob 10y agoThere's no reason why the Signal app couldn't allow you to register mailto:joe@example.invalid as well as tel:+18005551212; it just, currently, doesn't. And of course the protocol in general is much higher-level than that.