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> Is there an example of a federated chat service which has end to end encryption that just works? Yes. SilenceIM is a fork of Signal that maintains only the S
by dTal 8y ago
> Is there an example of a federated chat service which has end to end encryption that just works?
Yes. SilenceIM is a fork of Signal that maintains only the SMS implementation of the Axolotl ratchet. It works perfectly.
For that matter, every other chat network does too, if you use Pidgin and the pidgin-otr plugin.
End to end encryption is a property of the clients, not the network, practically by definition.
- toast0 8y agoSilenceIM and pidgin-otr add e2e over existing networks. That means I can attempt to send messages to people who won't be able to receive them. That is the opposite of 'just works'. With Signal, or other services, where e2e support is a mandatory part of the client and is the only way to send messages, if someone is available on the platform, I know that I'll have a e2e message stream. (subject to MITM of key exchange, of course)