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Re:Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90% by Darth_Hobo on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:11AM (#21426470)
If you can view your old conversation from a fresh installation on a new devices then this automatically implies that some 3rd party has access to your keys. I.e. your conversion cannot be considered truly private.
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Re:Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90% by tomatocracy on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:55AM (#21441152)
It can also imply syncing over an end to end encrypted (and verified, using QR codes at setup) channel between the devices being synchronised. I believe this is what signal does, for example.
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Re:Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90% by tsbertalan on Saturday November 02, 2019 @11:27AM (#21428198)
No it doesn't. The sync could be device-to-device, or it could be encrypted in it's storage on the intervening server, and require that the user provide secrets on the new device.
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