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Re:Viber adds end-to-end encryption by mikeokner on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:18AM (#11527107)
> Also, message metadata is still being leaked by all of these E2E implementations and needs to be fixed.

Ricochet (https://ricochet.im/) solves that problem using Tor hidden services. Desktop only at the moment AFAIK, though.

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Re:Viber adds end-to-end encryption by vox_mollis on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:01PM (#11528363)
One great benefit to ricochet is that you can choose to exclude those with whom you are communicating from your COMSEC threat model, due to the lack of (mostly connection) metadata availability.
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Re:Viber adds end-to-end encryption by nxzero on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:25PM (#11528563)
Sounds interesting.

Appears to have a lot of docs/code, are you able to link to the related code & docs?

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Re:Viber adds end-to-end encryption by nxzero on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @11:07AM (#11527501)
Are there any stats posted on the size of the network? (either from Tor or P2P network analysis)
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