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Can we also stop pretending Signal was some genius stroke that happened in a vacuum? With all due respect to Moxie signal was born out of years of experience wi
by rjzzleep 7y ago
Can we also stop pretending Signal was some genius stroke that happened in a vacuum? With all due respect to Moxie signal was born out of years of experience with OTR and SCIMP for XMPP and the need for asynchronous key exchanges in chat systems.
- tptacek 7y agoMoxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin.
- lvh 7y agoSure: is there a specific place where you feel I've done that? I think everyone involved would happily concede that Signal, like almost everything, stood on the shoulders of giants. It seems fine to both acknowledge that and also say that making it more accessible (literally go install this thing from the app store) and developing it further (the Signal protocol builds on OTR and SCIMP, sure, but Axolotl, 3XDH and the formalization of Noise are meaningful developments that also warrant recognition).