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What’s your alternative? Sneakernet? Anything that goes over a network could be stored.
by cvwright 4y ago
What’s your alternative? Sneakernet?
Anything that goes over a network could be stored.
- scifibestfi 4y agoThe article says they are not stored. That's what I'm questioning. "user messages are stored only on their devices, not on Signal’s servers or anywhere else."
- kingaillas 4y agoI think it is fair to interpret that as: Signal is not storing messages on their servers, also Signal is not storing them on someone else's servers. Whether or not a 3rd party, outside Signal's knowledge and/or control, is storing messages is entirely out of their control.
- tialaramex 4y agoSure, like I said, it's a information theoretic argument. Imagine if Signal used a One Time Pad instead of AES, this might make it easier to see what's going on if you have some idea about the One Time Pad. Suppose I promise you that qMsVOrgWDZTo0Fet9xLhIQ is the base 64 encoded, 16 byte encrypted message I just sent, but I used OTP. Do you in some sense "have" a copy of my message ? No. That is completely useless without the key, it could have literally been any message, without the key there's no difference.
- scifibestfi 4y agoThanks for the explanation! That helps.
- palata 4y agoThe whole point of e2ee is that you don't have to care about that!