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Interesting, and of course I love the mission. They are trying to move beyond PGP and protect metadata (who talks to whom) instead of just content. The spec st
by dcposch 12y ago
Interesting, and of course I love the mission. They are trying to move beyond PGP and protect metadata (who talks to whom) instead of just content.
The spec strikes me as complex. Why are there three modes (Trustful, Cautious, and Paranoid)? Why is there a Cryptocurrency field and a Motto field?
- undefined0 12y ago> Why are there three modes I don't understand this too. If you set the mode to paranoid, this gives the NSA metadata that you're trying to hide something from them and then the NSA will archive all of the paranoid emails as they currently archive OTR messages, in the hopes that one day they can decrypt them. There needs to be just one mode, private by default - unless their specification is designed in a way to make the NSA unable to detect which mode a user has enabled?
- torrance 12y agoFrom my brief reading of the spec, the three modes are mostly just a matter of where the keys are generated and stored. I think the messages themselves are indifferent to the mode (and therefore intermediaries can't determine between the three).