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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by newman314 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:32PM (#9862161)
While having Signal is great, one thing I don't like is the use of phone numbers as identifiers. Why can't we have the option of using a random string?
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by em3rgent0rdr on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:11AM (#9863113)
secure transmission of texts is the goal, not providing anonymity of sender and receiver.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by newman314 on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:49PM (#9865950)
Why not do both (one optionally)?
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