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Re:Wrong signal by zeveb on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:30PM (#13058133)
> If there is no central directory of identifiers to public keys, there's no way my mom will use it to send me anything

She'd never use an app where you two bump phones with NFC?

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Re:Wrong signal by cwmma on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:58PM (#13058343)
I don't think her phone has NFC, it might but she wouldn't know if it did. But I don't always see her in person that often, which means we'd have to wait until we were face to face before we could even try to see if she had NFC etc.
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Re:Wrong signal by zeveb on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:22AM (#13063991)
Could also scan a QR code.

I think an IM which relied on in-person seeding and then bootstrapped with mutual contacts could be quite powerful, and easy to use for newbies too.

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