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One thing I realized with this is that there are multiple levels of metadata privacy: 1. Messaging provider cannot see which accounts message each other 2. IS
by conradev 5y ago
One thing I realized with this is that there are multiple levels of metadata privacy:
1. Messaging provider cannot see which accounts message each other
2. ISP cannot see which IP addresses message each other
Using Tor here gets you both 1 and 2, but at the cost of latency: it is something like 6 hops to rendezvous with a hidden service. WebRTC (assuming Tor as a TURN fallback) would be a lot faster, but would not include 2.