Privacy @lemmy.ml ride @monero.town 1 yr. ago

SimpleX Chat: Private and Secure messaging

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/934733

SimpleX Chat

Private and Secure messaging platform without user IDs

Will this new messenger replace Signal?

Watch on Youtube

by Evgeny Poberezkin

Monero @monero.town ride @monero.town 1 yr. ago

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No link to a repo? I'm not going to watch a video to know what a project does or how it does it. No thanks.
- https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat
  
  Thanks.
  
  So it has a new ID for each tunnel/channel/whatever. As usual, that comes with the downside of discoverability: how do you find all your contacts when installing the app? You always need an out of band transfer of the user ID - be it email, username, or a transient one like this.
  
  I'm not sure how much better that is than existing chat apps that don't have discoverability.
  
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  Signal has backup 🤔
  
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  OOB is arguably better for privacy.
  
  How?
  
  If the OOB is not encrypted --> hello MITM attack or impersonation (unless of course you're physically in the same place, which is quite limiting)
  
  If it's encrypted, why not just keep using encrypted channel? I have to find an encrypted channel to initiate an encrypted chat?
  
  I'm not seeing the benefit
  
  I can give someone my ID in person. I control how it's delivered.

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