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Re:Alt-C: A neat little app to copy text between your device... by ToastyMallows on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:24AM (#9069291)
Right on the front page: "Alt-C uses Google Cloud Messaging with SSL connections to copy the text."
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Re:Alt-C: A neat little app to copy text between your device... by Freaky on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:59PM (#9069900)
End-to-end encryption means it's encrypted between the endpoints - any intermediate servers just see ciphertext and never have access to the key to decrypt it. SSL just encrypts the link to Google's servers - it should be basically irrelevant since the data should already be encrypted and digitally signed.
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Re:Alt-C: A neat little app to copy text between your device... by aw3c2 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:18PM (#9069646)
Argh, so it is not just them, but also Google who can read your texts? What do they or Google need the plaintext for?
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