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Someone should simply fork signal and deploy an app without phone number, focused on privacy(i.e options to exchange keys in person without any user account or
by thefounder 8y ago
Someone should simply fork signal and deploy an app without phone number, focused on privacy(i.e options to exchange keys in person without any user account or phone number)
- pgeorgi 8y agoSo you'd have the account setup flow but still on a single server only few can control. I'd prefer to see people go for a federated system (eg XMPP with OMEMO for E2E crypto) or work on truly decentralized ones (that one is hard, and blockchain is not a trivial solution ;-) ) rather than propose yet another system where somebody else can control who you can talk to (even if they can't see what you're talking about) as a replacement for the previous system with the very same properties, just ran by a different party.
- thefounder 8y agoAt least you would have end to end encryption using a protocol regarded as secure. Descentalization would be the next step.
- pgeorgi 8y agoOMEMO is based on the Signal Protocol, and there's some discussion[0] about the effect of the changes. So in a way this is Signal Protocol (the one "regarded as secure") with that "next step" of adding decentralization already taken. [0] https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf
- swebs 8y agoMaybe you want Tox https://tox.chat https://tox.chat