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Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by lxgr on Thursday December 07, 2023 @12:34AM (#38553211)
This is very hard to get right.

Some Bitcoin SPV clients have tried solving an almost equivalent problem, but the obvious approach does not work for various subtle reasons: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/763.pdf

Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by eru on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:57AM (#38554358)
Oh, it's definitely not easy to get this right properly. I just wanted to point out that things aren't as clear-cut impossible as the comment suggested.