Re:What should the next chat app look like?
by upofadown on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:57AM
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You hardly have to create a new protocol because you don't like Signal. XMPP exists... You can even use the Signal encryption in the form of OMEMO, although it might be a too complicated for good standardization.
>...if you want to support voice or video chat (please don’t), that’ll complicate things even more.
But not very much. If you define a method to securely establish a shared secret then this sort of thing can be an entirely different standard hopefully implemented as a separate binary running in a separate security context.
>...if you want to support voice or video chat (please don’t), that’ll complicate things even more.
But not very much. If you define a method to securely establish a shared secret then this sort of thing can be an entirely different standard hopefully implemented as a separate binary running in a separate security context.