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And the encryption they are offering is custom, which is always at least suspect.
by this_user 5y ago
And the encryption they are offering is custom, which is always at least suspect.
- EGreg 5y agoI actually trust it more to not have backdoors. Signal is written by the same guys who sold to Facebook, and although both Moxie and Pavel are anarchists, I trust the guys who were actually ousted from their own country and yes, rolled their own encryption (with bounties to break it) rather than use an officially approved one https://twitter.com/durov/status/872891017418113024?lang=en https://twitter.com/durov/status/872891017418113024?lang=en https://telegra.ph/Why-Using-WhatsApp-Is-Dangerous-01-30-4 https://telegra.ph/Why-Using-WhatsApp-Is-Dangerous-01-30-4 Besides - Moxie is kind of against decentralization, he thinks that by centralizing trust in a certain entity, things can be better. I am not convinced that such an approach leads to a better model for me to have encrypted communications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21904469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21904469 I like that Signal started using SGX though. It’s not ideal (now I have to trust Intel instead) but at least if you’re going to be running some code on a centralized service instead of byzantine consensus, let me know you aren’t backdooring it: https://medium.com/@maniacbolts/signal-increases-their-reliance-on-sgx-f46378f336d3 https://medium.com/@maniacbolts/signal-increases-their-relia...