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I get a "download the app to scan QR code and login" wall / lock-out. This wouldn't count as being browser-based!
by marknadal 9y ago
I get a "download the app to scan QR code and login" wall / lock-out. This wouldn't count as being browser-based!
- lawl 9y agoThis is because the private key to en/decrypt messages never leaves your phone. So the 'browser based' version still routes messages to your phone first (to presumably re-encrypt them with a different key that you got from scanning that QR code). You can argue semantics if that counts as browser based or not, but I think that's actually a pretty sane way to to things, security wise.
- gurgus 9y agoIt's in a browser. It's browser based.