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Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by zeveb on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @12:39PM (#11431900)
Noise is really interesting. I'd hoped from the name that it might incorporate some of the ideas behind Dust[1], which attempts to hide even that there is a Dust session going on, and what the public and private keys of the recipients are. No such luck — still, it looks very interesting.

[1] http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/wileydust.pdf

Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by skybrian on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @01:14PM (#11432275)
What's interesting about Noise?
Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by tptacek on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:31PM (#11434677)
It's an expert-authored modern framework for designing fast cryptographic transport protocols that have (depending on the options you select) forward secrecy, peer authentication, and resistance to key compromise.

The notion of a cryptographic protocol framework, rather than a complicated negotiation scheme for a kitchen-sink protocol, is also somewhat novel.