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As a complete layman, I don't understand why this is different than WhatsApp (they claim to fully encrypt stuff, right? Is it worse than this?). If I don't unde
by anonytrary 9y ago
As a complete layman, I don't understand why this is different than WhatsApp (they claim to fully encrypt stuff, right? Is it worse than this?). If I don't understand encryption and computers, why should I be sold on this? It seems to be aimed towards CS majors who understand the backend benefits. To an end user, it looks like an ordinary chat app. Am I wrong? This seems to have been heavily upvoted; is there a 10x improvement I'm missing?
- Zhenya 9y agoWhile whatsapp messages are, apparently, e2e encrypted - your phonebook and metadata are slurped up by facebook. Signal does not have that goal and have been shown by courts documents to not store the metadata.
- anonytrary 9y agoThe Signal app asks for a ton of permissions. Apparently this isn't decentralized either, so how is it different than Facebook? Did they prove it was mathematically hard/impossible for them to see any of the (meta)data? Have they proven that they are a 100% oblivious broker?
- distances 9y agoThe courts not getting any data, as parent just mentioned, is very strong proof for that.
- anonytrary 9y ago> The courts not getting any data I don't know what that means.
- cwyers 9y agoWhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol, so its encryption is the same as this. The Foundation will continue to advance the Signal Protocol, and presumably WhatsApp can benefit from any improvements.