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Doesn't this mean a bunch of features that run on the server have to be removed, like searching message history - which I use all the time?
by ClassyJacket 3y ago
Doesn't this mean a bunch of features that run on the server have to be removed, like searching message history - which I use all the time?
- tinytuna 3y agoBy default yes but you can always disable it
- contact9879 3y agoE2EE won't be disable-able
- egberts1 3y agoYou meant EE2E, a more favorable privacy form than E2EE.
- iknowstuff 3y agoWhat?
- contact9879 3y agoUsually yes, but check out their Labyrinth implementation which might mean the answer for most features is no.
- ngrilly 3y agoI just read the white paper, and I haven't seen anything about search, which would require some kind of homomorphic encryption, but I think that's pretty much an unsolved problem: for example, to be able to search message content in Proton Mail, you need to enable the creation of a local search index — it's not done server-side, which means all the messages have to be downloaded locally to be indexed.
- nullandvoid 3y agoSearch works fine on WhatsApp, not sure whether it's client / server though.
- ngrilly 3y agoBecause everything is stored locally.