Re:The Security, Usability and Multi-Device-Problem of Messa...
by tazjin on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:57AM
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Thanks for taking the time to give some feedback, appreciated!
I didn't say Signal isn't usable, but it doesn't fit into the requirements because there should not be a distinction between primary/secondary devices after onboarding.
It might be possible to change Signal's model to accomodate that, but why even have a model that involves copying private keys between devices if you can avoid it? What if you wanted to revoke privileges from a device, but it has a shared identity key with your others?
> Anything involving the word "blockchain" here is fundamentally not going to work
Why? What if you're building something as a federated system and you need to share this key info in the network? Do you have an alternative suggestion?
I didn't say Signal isn't usable, but it doesn't fit into the requirements because there should not be a distinction between primary/secondary devices after onboarding.
It might be possible to change Signal's model to accomodate that, but why even have a model that involves copying private keys between devices if you can avoid it? What if you wanted to revoke privileges from a device, but it has a shared identity key with your others?
> Anything involving the word "blockchain" here is fundamentally not going to work
Why? What if you're building something as a federated system and you need to share this key info in the network? Do you have an alternative suggestion?