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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by LinuxBender on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:45AM (#34996264)
Adding to that Pidgin has a nice plugin called OTR that enables E2EE regardless of the platform/transport being used. OTR exists for Weechat [1] as well.

[1] - https://github.com/mmb/weechat-otr

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by rjzzleep on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:57AM (#34996397)
Signal encryption was born out of OTR, because of the need to do the key exchanges while one party is offline.
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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by LinuxBender on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:17AM (#34996684)
I am not a fan of offline key exchanges through a centralized privacy-focused server. Moxie knows why too. I wish he could come here so we could have that discussion. Perhaps I am old fashioned but I prefer military procedure of go for authentication in an out-of-band communication and verifying via voice each others key fingerprints or better, physically exchanging keys in person.
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