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> which is why you can easily get a comparable, though inferior, version of Signal's cryptography in a messenger that doesn't require phone numbers. How so? Ar
by joecool1029 8y ago
> which is why you can easily get a comparable, though inferior, version of Signal's cryptography in a messenger that doesn't require phone numbers.
How so? Are things like OMEMO different cryptographically from Signal protocol?
- agnokapathetic 8y agoOMEMO just implements the Double Ratchet Algorithm that Perin and Marlinspike created for Signal as an XMPP extension. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm