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This is cool! It's simple and clean. I'm wondering how does the initial key exchange work. That seems to be the biggest problem with PGP. I would recommend giv
by foobar_ 6y ago
This is cool! It's simple and clean. I'm wondering how does the initial key exchange work. That seems to be the biggest problem with PGP.
I would recommend giving it a more different look than WhatsApp.
- shock 6y agoI think the WhatApp look choice is spot on – I have friends that use WhatsApp a lot and this has helped in getting them to try DeltaChat.
- dirtnugget 6y agoApparently there is a protocol, they name it in the FAQ: https://autocrypt.org/ https://autocrypt.org/ After the second message, if that user is also using an app based on autocrypt, it should be encrypted. If I understood right it's just a way to asymmetrically exchange keys. Just instead of you manually sending a pubkey or pulling it from a registry like in PGP they do it for you.
- foobar_ 6y agoIt seems after installing the app 1. It logs into email via SMTP / OAuth 2. It creates a folder called delta chat 3. The first message sent to the another user is not PGP encrypted but when both users use delta chat the messages are encrypted If only gmail/yahoo/... supported autocrypt you can communicate with every email user safely, but why would they ? It's a conflict of interest. Decrypted messages are stored on the client and you can export the keys. Creating a random email address would be an easier way to ensure more privacy I suppose. Over all the App supports everything WhatsApp does sans VOIP. I wonder how difficult that is ?
- dirtnugget 6y agoGMails business model is basically based on scanning your mail. It should be possible if they can work out how to put WebRTC with transformable streams in there. It’s the most feature complete messenger. Maybe it’s possible to hook it up to ProtonMail