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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by joecool1029 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:23PM (#12849241)
It was done before. See Signal's predecessor, Textsecure (before they added Signal protocol, pre-2.7.0).

If I recall it limited encrypted messages to 60 characters before splitting. It was also annoying in that you needed to initiate an OTR handshake to start messaging.

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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by digi_owl on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:26PM (#12849272)
That handshake, or the initial exchange of public keys, is the one thing that seems to stymie general adoption of encryption for personal communication.
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by joecool1029 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:40PM (#12849386)
Current Signal fortunately doesn't make this apparent to the end user, it's install and go message whomever advertises support.

I'm ditching Pidgin-OTR today actually because of the OTR usability issues needing to handshake on every laptop restart. Will be going over to bitlbee terminating OTR on a server and then accessing my ZNC supporting push through TLS. Much less jarring.

OMEMO would be better than OTR for this, but not much supports it yet.

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