I don’t consider myself exceptional in any regard, but I stumbled upon a few cryptography vulnerabilities in Matrix’s Olm library with so little effort that it was nearly accidental. It…
meanwhile, it is very unclear that any sidechannel attack on a libolm based client is practical over the network (which is why we didn’t fix this years ago).
Wow… Uh, that’s certainly a thing for a developer to let slip out, huh?
One thing I don’t get about Signal/Telegram/etc is that they claim to be secure and private… Yet also require you to prove your identity via a phone number? I don’t really get it.
That would be a massive deal breaker to some people I want to push off Discord and is one of the reasons I haven’t tried Signal yet, but have tried Matrix.
Wow… Uh, that’s certainly a thing for a developer to let slip out, huh?
One thing I don’t get about Signal/Telegram/etc is that they claim to be secure and private… Yet also require you to prove your identity via a phone number? I don’t really get it.
That would be a massive deal breaker to some people I want to push off Discord and is one of the reasons I haven’t tried Signal yet, but have tried Matrix.
signal no longer requires phone numbers as they have implemented a username system
I figured, but my question is: Why did it take them so long, especially for something that prides itself on privacy?