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> Any non-broken secure messaging protocol should have this property Okay then, tell me how you could build a system that * Guarantees secure transmission of
by sjwright 13y ago
> Any non-broken secure messaging protocol should have this property
Okay then, tell me how you could build a system that
* Guarantees secure transmission of public keys
* Can be installed safely on a closed-source operating system
* Is impervious to the whims of the hardware vendor or the operating system vendor
* Is sufficiently straightforward that mums everywhere will happily use it
* Doesn't require users to become security experts
Given the practical realities Apple has to contend with, I think they've done a pretty good job -- certainly a lot better than what anyone could have expected, arguably a lot better than anything comparable that has come before it.
- lawnchair_larry 13y agoNo, Apple has definitely done worse than what we have expected. Worse, they haven't provided what they claimed. That being a secure end-to-end messaging protocol. This discussion about backdooring applications isn't even interesting or relevant here. The protocol itself is not secure.