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Re:When Tech Says ‘No’ by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:17AM (#37390246)
> Btw, end-to-end encryption by its very definition, means that only the sender and receiver kan decrypt it. Your scheme is basically saying that the police should also be a receiver of all messages...

And serverless literally means "without servers", and yet...

Point being, scope is a free variable. "E2EE" that's managed by a central server is already stretching it, yet people accept it. They'll mostly accept excluding law enforcement out of the scope of eavesdropers "E2EE" protects you from too.

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Re:When Tech Says ‘No’ by mythhabit on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:10AM (#37402843)
Centrally managed E2EE is not end to end if the server can decrypt anything. The definition means that the keys to decrypt only exists at either end.
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