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OMEMO, signal protocol and Olm (as used by Matrix) are pretty much bitwise identical. OMEMO for instance has been implemented using both libsignalprotocol and l
by Arathorn 5y ago
OMEMO, signal protocol and Olm (as used by Matrix) are pretty much bitwise identical. OMEMO for instance has been implemented using both libsignalprotocol and libolm.
The “incompatibility” comes from the fact that the payloads within the encryption are utterly different. It’s nothing to do with the encryption; you’d see the same thing with PGP.
- upofadown 5y agoHow? The payload is completely defined under the base standard (RFC-4880), both the binary and ASCII protected versions. Otherwise what would be the point of a universally interoperable end to end encryption standard like OpenPGP?