http://matrix.org/ is a promising decentralized communications protocol.
The popular https://riot.im is built on top.
Re:Encrypted email is still a pain
by joecool1029 on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:29PM
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> The popular https://riot.im is built on top.
Thanks, so it's basically a opensource and federated slack?
How does this solve the email encryption use case? (longer form text not requiring presence)
Re:Encrypted email is still a pain
by NoGravitas on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:38PM
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As is, it doesn't. It should be possible to build an app with the email nature on top of the Matrix protocols though, and I'm led to understand there are people working on it.
What is SS7?
Re:Encrypted email is still a pain
by joecool1029 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:57AM
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SS7 is internet connected and federated and it's arguably as big as email.
> XMPP tried to address this and failed; now Matrix is trying again.
Oh, agreed on XMPP. Encryption was a very much after the fact addition to it though.
I haven't heard about Matrix and plugging in 'matrix encrypted email' into search gets 0 relevant results on DDG and is bottom of the page for Google. Maybe the ranking sucks cause the page takes 20s to load the JS shit and it has zero content aside from a bouncing fucking shitball above the fold.