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Zak 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Remote Attestation

There's some value in that, but Signal's main security proposition is that you don't have to trust the infrastructure. E2EE means even compromised server software can't read message contents.

gruez 4 months ago [–]

He's talking about contact discovery, which can't be solved by just slapping e2ee on it

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