I though it would be cool to chat in real time so here it is
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It’s pedantry, but significant pedantry: it’s not a private chat. You published the link; it’s public chat. Nazis, cops, the NSA, trolls… anyone can join, view, and publish everything anyone says in that channel. It may be anonymous, but it isn’t private.
The difference is important.
If you want a private group chat, you have to verify and curate who you let into the channel, and even then you can’t be certain. But encryption is less than useless for open-access chats, because it gives people a false sense of security.
what about a session community? That one’s actually private
Well there are worse things I would still like to point out that Session has had quite a lot of controversy. Also Simplex Chat is simpler from a architecture perspective which makes it easier to verify.
Session has had quite a lot of controversy.
Like what? You mean the pedos that also use it? There’s pedos that do all kinds of illegal shit here on a few different instances of lemmy too…at least that’s what I heard from the owner of a mastodon instance that didn’t want to federate with one particular instance that kept happening on.
No it is not great for privacy or reliability. Lokinet is a joke and the crypto behind it basically a pyramid scheme. They screwed over the people who initially invested and now they want people to reinvest.
Also the security of the app is weaker than signal. They removed forward secrecy which means that if someone gets your private key they can decrypt any of your messages. This is made worse by your messages being stored in Loki net since anyone with your key can become you and see your entire history. Even if you delete a message it likely can still be recovered.
Compare this to messagers like Signal and Simplex Chat. These messagers use forward secrecy via a cryptographic system called double ratchet encryption. What this means is that the key that encrypts the messages is rotated and after it does the old key can not be recovered. By this mechanism messages are stored to your device and then the original key is discarded. This means that this message is not recoverable from the encrypted state even if your private key is stolen. Even if your device is totally pwned a deleted message can not be recovered.
Also the security of the app is weaker than signal. They removed forward secrecy which means that if someone gets your private key they can decrypt any of your messages. This is made worse by your messages being stored in Loki net since anyone with your key can become you and see your entire history. Even if you delete a message it likely can still be recovered.
that’s one of the problems with everything that’s anonymous with no way to verify or track who’s who.
It isn’t an issue with Simplex Chat or Signal. Forward secrecy means that the decryption key is not stored but instead computed and used once before it is discarded.
crypto behind it basically a pyramid scheme.
Any crypto currency that isn’t Bitcoin, Monero or DodgeCoin is that.
