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FTA: “the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption” “SMS and traditional telephone voice calls lack any encryption a
by Someone 2y ago
FTA: “the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption”
“SMS and traditional telephone voice calls lack any encryption at all, but they’re firmly established. Just like email. But anything new should only be supported if it’s fundamentally based on E2EE.”
“Perhaps, someday, the RCS spec will support an open standard for E2EE. I’m not holding my breath for that. For one thing, industry consortiums tend not to produce good solutions to hard problems, and an open standard for E2EE messaging is a very hard problem.”
So, they argue
- new communication standards must be end-to-end encrypted
- that open end-to-end encrypted standards cannot be developed
If both are true any new communication standards must be proprietary.
I don’t think that’s a conclusion shared by society.
- LorenDB 2y agoOpen, decentralized, and federated E2EE is clearly possible. Matrix is a perfect example of this.
- voxic11 2y agoWas it developed by an industry consortium though? It seems like it was created by a single company.
- voxic11 2y agoThey argue that open end-to-end encrypted standards cannot be developed by industry consortiums which seems to be true.
- jvolkman 2y agoThat is the recently-ratified RFC9420, or Messaging Layer Security [1]. Matrix is supportive [2], Google is supportive [3], and Google Messages is actively gaining support [4]. 1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/ 2: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/a-giant-leap-with-mls https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/a-giant-leap-with-mls 3: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-towards-secure-and.html https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-to... 4: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-mls-e2ee-messages-3457483/ https://www.androidauthority.com/google-mls-e2ee-messages-34...
- dialup_sounds 2y agoHe did not say that open E2EE could not be developed. Of course it could, someday, maybe. Meanwhile the proprietary networks that literally billions of people already use have had E2E for 10+ years.